Corporate culture and guiding principles:

TP ICAP operates at the heart of the world's financial, energy and commodities markets. We are professional intermediaries playing a pivotal role; matching buyers and sellers, we create liquidity and price discovery in these markets and provide insight and context to our clients.

We provide market participants with execution via a range of regulated venues, covering a full spectrum of over-the-counter (OTC) asset classes. Through electronic, voice and hybrid brokerage channels, we facilitate the development of liquidity and price discovery in global OTC asset markets.

Globally, we are a leading provider of proprietary OTC market data and analytics, with comprehensive coverage of financial, energy and commodities products. Our market data is independent, unbiased and non-position influenced.

Our clients include banks, insurance companies, pension and hedge funds, asset managers, energy producers and refiners as well as risk and compliance managers and charities.

We are known in the market for our Honesty, Integrity, and Excellence in the provision of service to our clients. Above all else, we Respect our clients and each other, without bias. Employees are expected to uphold the values and principles of our cultural framework in performance of their job duties.

Job duties:

• Day to day supervision of the Accounts Payable team EMEA
• Support the team giving guidance on Accounts Payable procedures and processes
• Responsible for the timely processing and payment of all supplier invoices and staff expense claims
• Responsible for the administration of the Corporate card account
• Responsible for charging invoices to the correct accounts and cost centres
• Recommend and implement improvements to the systems, processes and procedures
• Ensure governance and controls are in place and monitored
• Ensure adherence to payment terms and no late payments are made
• Ensure compliance with policies and guidelines and monitor and record any breaches
• Deliver regular meaningful management information
• Deliver Government reports
• Ensure correct treatment of VAT
• Oversee the BACS / CHAPS payment runs ensuring compliance with delegated authorisation and signatories

Risk

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility;
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as described in the policy;
• Escalate risk events immediately and log them within 24 hours using the risk event capture form on the intranet;
• Provide input if requested to the Risk and Control Self-Assessment process, scenario analysis, 'Deep Dive' reviews and any other risk management processes, as required.

Person Specification:

Experience

• Supervisor experience in an accounting environment, interacting with stakeholders across multiple functions and locations desirable
• Experience of processing a high volume of invoices on a monthly basis
• Experience of working to strict month end close deadlines
• Experience of dealing with multiple AP sub-ledgers and multi-currency transactions
• Experience of payment platforms and banking software
• Experience of reporting in a KPI driven environment
• Experience of processing in a controls environment and evidence of controls process improvement
• Experience of working in a Corporate/large firm environment
• Experience of dealing with stakeholder queries
• Skilled in ERP applications such as Oracle AP, Oracle iExpenses, Oracle iProcurement, SAP Concur
• Skilled in the use of Excel and reporting packages such as Discoverer/ORBIT/Hubble

Knowledge

• Ability to analyse problems, propose remedies and implement a solution
• Ability to react to changing requirements and adjust processes and approach
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and demonstrate initiative

Skills

• Leadership skills and ability to mobilise teams
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships across functional areas
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Right to live and work in the UK

Innovative

• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights
• Seeks opportunities for improvements
• Handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity

Dynamic & Competitive

• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals
• Goes that "extra mile"
• Is a self-starter
• Shows evidence of being comfortable working in fast paced or pressured environments
• Enjoys a challenge and is able to escalate
• Does not give up easily

Open & Communicative

• Adapts communication style to suit audience
• Projects personal credibility
• Interacts confidently without being overbearing
• Ability to work effectively in a high pressure environment
• Keeps emotions under control in difficult situations
• Handles criticism constructively

Professional Integrity

• Able to demonstrate honesty, integrity and professionalism
• Promotes loyalty to TP ICAP and its principles
• Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values

Effective

• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach
• Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills