Assistant Account / Ap Supervisor

Assistant Accountant / AP Supervisor (10-12 months Mat Cover, May/ Jun start)
We are currently seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to join my client's Finance team as an Accounts Payable Supervisor and Assistant Accountant. This role will be responsible for supporting the preparation of all company local statutory accounts and ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of accounts. Additionally, the role involves managing the AP function and providing month-end duties.

As an Accounts Payable Supervisor and Assistant Accountant, you will play a vital role in ensuring the accurate and timely preparation of all local statutory accounts. This will involve preparing monthly multi-currency bank reconciliations and other month-end responsibilities. You will also be responsible for maintaining a strong internal control environment, identifying weaknesses, and recommending necessary changes.
Additionally, you will manage the Accounts Payable function, ensuring an effective and efficient service across invoice posting, supplier queries, and payment runs. Monitoring and reporting on team KPI targets and serving as the first point of escalation for AP services will be part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will provide month-end duties, including conducting monthly supplier reconciliations and bank reconciliation queries. Collaboration with the Financial Reporting team to review cash balances and currency availability will also be a key aspect of your role.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Management of the AP function: You will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of the team's responsibilities, setting goals for and reviewing team performance. This includes overseeing invoice posting, supplier queries, and payment runs.
• Assist with the preparations of the UK statutory accounts: You will work closely with the Financial Reporting team to ensure the accuracy of financial statements and meet reporting deadlines. This involves liaising with auditors and responding to audit requests.
• Manage month-end deliverables for the AP team: This includes conducting monthly supplier reconciliations and resolving bank reconciliation queries.
• Ensure compliance measures are adhered to: You will ensure compliance measures are followed.
• Prepare month-end files: You will be responsible for posting journals for accruals and prepayments, conducting variance analysis to budget, and maintaining ownership of program assets and liabilities, as well as accounts payable and intercompany reconciliations.
• Prepare quarterly balance sheet reconciliations: You will resolve variances and prepare quarterly files to assist with US reporting.
• Train Accounts Payable team members: You will provide training to ensure that processes are followed correctly.
• Budget preparation: You will contribute to the preparation of budgets for responsible areas.

Key Competencies Required:

• Experience in an accounts payable role.
• Attention to detail, as you will be dealing with a high volume of data that needs to be accurate.
• Experience managing multi-currency bank reconciliations.
• Ability to prioritise workload and reorganise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word and Excel).
• Customer-focused mindset.
• Experience using a finance system such as Oracle.

If you are a proactive individual with strong attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.

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