Accounts Payable Manager

Robert Walters Group: New Role – Accounts Payable Manager – Burton – Hybrid

Are you a forward-thinking Accounts Payable Manager who is looking to join a developing and growing business? Do you have the ability to train and up skill teams and drive forwarding improvement in a role? Then the below Accounts Payable Manager position is the one for you.

Role: Accounts Payable Manager

Type: Permanent

Location: Burton – Hybrid working

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience

Duties of the Accounts Payable Manager:

• Responsibility for establishing and monitoring core AP KPIs including the following:
• Develop and maintain weekly and monthly dashboard reporting and early warning escalation systems.
• Monthly review of all aged creditors ensuring actions taken to manage long overdue creditors
• Effective and timely communication upwards of the status quo and any issues requiring early intervention
• Accountability to ensure smooth planning and operation of regular payment runs (currently bi-weekly) to maintain adequate controls and checks in place to ensure correct and accurate payments are made to all creditors
• Responsible for ensuring all payments were posted into SAP correctly and allocated to the correct supplier or GL code, including inter company transfers. Coordinating with the Treasury function to ensure sufficient funds and notice of any unusual or unexpected upcoming transactions
• Provide excellent customer service, and manage and maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Accountability for external AP payment practices reporting and ensuring the Group is kept up-to-date with all external reporting requirements
• Overseeing AP month-end tasks, reviewing journals and posting within the system (SAP)
• Managing the resolution of any supply issues escalated by team members or the wider business
• Accountability for the oversight and monitoring of Purchase Order (PO) requests both current and outstanding. Communication and training to the wider business in PO creation and payment issues
• Identifying potential supplier risks.
• To proactively identify continuous areas for system and process improvements and the cash management banks the Group operates. Manage system issues that occur relating to accounts payable.
• Update and maintain procedural and controls documentation to ensure compliance with internal audit and in the future SOX requirements.
• Lead all AP-related tasks relating to year-end and internal audit, delegating appropriately within the team to meet deadlines
• Responsible for managing, mentoring and developing your team to ensure sustained growth, knowledge and up skilling

If you are interested in this role, please contact Lauren.freeman@robertwalters.com and applications will be contacted in order of receipt.

This role is managed by Walters People entity which is a temporary recruitment agency.