Accounts Payable Assistant - Newcastle upon Tyne

Job summary

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a team to ensure payments are made correctly, in a timely manner, in line with internal approval guidelines and authority limits;
• Preparing and linking supporting documentation for each payment;
• Taking your turn on any team rotas if appropriate;
• Covering other payment roles as necessary;
• Dealing with initial internal and external queries in a timely manner, to include escalation if required;
• General administration;
• Supporting/ buddying new members of the team where required;
• Using banking and accounting software;
• Attending team and finance meetings: Identifying errors and providing all necessary backups/reports for a correction;
• Ensuring the head of department or senior executive is informed about any process failure, to enable them to complete the incident and near miss reporting.

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