Accounts Payable Assistant

Company Details and Job Overview:
Kenton Black Finance are supporting an award-winning business who deliver sustainable solutions. This company invest, design, manufacture, construct, maintain and operate a wide variety of projects for the public and private sector. They are currently recruiting for a temporary Accounts Payable Assistant to support the team for 3 months. If you have Accounts Payable experience and are happy to work on a temporary basis, then please apply.
Your New Role as the Accounts Payable Assistant:
- Processing invoices
- Perform everyday management of all payment cycle activities
- Provide efficient client service
- Keep track, process and reconcile statements, in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Ensure correct approval, sorting, coding and matching of invoices/receipts
- Liaise and communicate with internal and external suppliers
- Continuously improve payment processes
- To carry out other appropriate duties as assigned by the Accounts Payable Manager
- To ensure that all operations carried out within our area of responsibility are undertaken with full regard for the safety of visitors, other members of staff and yourself.
- Ensure all activities are undertaken with due regard for the environment, to prevent pollution, comply with legal and corporate requirements and minimise environmental impact.
Experience & Qualifications Required to Apply:
- Good organisation skills, including the ability to multi-task and prioritise, to manage multiple accounts
- Strong verbal communication skills, including active listening and telephone manner
- Interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution, for building strong relationships with suppliers, contractors and business partners
- Basic bookkeeping and accounting knowledge
Kenton Black Finance operate across the UK as a market leading recruitment partner, specialising in the attraction of finance talent across both permanent and interim requirements. With a team of dedicated experts, each with longevity operating in the finance arena, we maintain a proven track record and have established partnerships with businesses both large, small and those in their infancy. Market leaders, we provide recruitment solutions from entry level finance to directorship professionals. Operating from local offices in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Aberdeen and Glasgow, Kenton Black Finance remain a dynamic and effective recruitment partner who represent and attract only the finest finance talent in the local area and across the UK.