Accounts Payable Assistant

Accounts Payable Assistant

Job Description

We are partnering with an innovative and expanding established company in Ilford. There's an opportunity within the finance function for a dedicated individual to join the busy office team on a full-time, permanent basis. This will be a varied role, collaborating with our Financial Controller and existing team members with general Accounts Payable tasks for a group of owner connected companies with an existing finance team.

About the role

The successful Accounts Payable Assistant will be someone who has a naturally positive and ethical approach, with a high can-do attitude to problem solving and completing tasks.

• Accounts payable; supporting the finance department with all finance requirements within a busy and thriving office
• Supporting existing staff with tasks, including setting up of payment runs, payroll support, data collections and data checking
• Maintaining and updating company systems (including Sage, Xero)
• Supporting the group with integrations of systems into existing company systems, overseen by Manager
• Matching records, data entry and auditing of existing data to ensure financial accuracy
• Record the supplier invoices on Sage
• Fully manage and reconcile monthly statements with suppliers
• Developing strong relations with suppliers and customers
• Communicate positively with customers, suppliers
• Office support, with a positive client-driven attitude
• Collect staff hours from the system
• Other ad hoc administrative duties

About the successful candidate

The successful candidate will be joining a busy accounts department and will be required to:

- Work with an experienced Financial Controller to achieve finance deliverables in a thriving busy finance team

- Has excellent all-round numeracy

- Has genuine passion to collaborate with colleagues to resolve day to day accounting challenges

- Take initiative and make day to day decisions in line with company targets

- Be highly organised

- Have strong accuracy and attention to detail

- Be able to work to deadlines on own initiative

- Be a key team player

- Possess high communication skills matched with a genuine care for the work they deliver

About the opportunity:

- Full training provided

- Immediate start available

- An experienced and all-inclusive culture

- Company offers staff discount and benefit schemes for over three thousand retailers including holidays that can save up to £2,000 per year after probation pass

- Cycle to work scheme