Accounts Payable Supervisor - Swindon, United Kingdom - Historic England

Historic England

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Swindon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Summary

Historic England is the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people to understand, value, and care for them.

We are seeking an Accounts Payable Supervisor to join the Finance Team here at Historic England.

The role is responsible for supervising the accurate processing of all data to ensure payments are made to suppliers, grant recipients and staff within given service levels, using various financial systems.

We are focused on inspiring, empowering, training and coaching our people to deliver their work, so they can grow, evolve and succeed in their career

What you will be doing

You will support the Accounts Payable Assistants in accurately processing supplier invoices, grants, payment requests and associated transactions (including BACS rejects, cancelled and uncleared cheques), in line with desk procedures.

You will assist in ensuring the efficient running of the purchase ledger module and associated processes, including but not limited to invoice processing and query handling, grants processing and month
- and year-end processing.

The role is responsible for the undertaking of daily payment run routines and managing exceptions.

Check and authorise sundry supplier payments and authorise online payments within permitted limits, ensuring BACS rejects and cancelled cheques are dealt with in line with process.

You will prepare transparency reporting and prompt payment statistics, supervise the daily workload of the Accounts Payable Assistants and support the Accounts Payable Manager with the management of the Accounts Payable Assistants.

You will provide support to the Accounts Payable Manager, gaining an understanding of the various activities, ensuring all activities are undertaken in line with KPIs, check and seek to resolve the accuracy of control reports, seek to identify opportunities for process improvement and assist with the implementation of any relevant projects or programmes, including assisting in user acceptance testing in relevant systems.

What we are looking for

A high level of numerical and verbal reasoning
Good communication skills with a wide range of people
Explores issues with users to establish facts and seeks root cause
Able to multitask and prioritise workloads ideally from multiple workstreams
Customer service experience and building good relationships
Achieving targets and meeting deadlines
Understanding of processes and explaining these to users

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.

Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 26% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the county and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.

Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Provisional Interview dates:
week commencing 06th February 2023

Job Types:
Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 24 months

Salary:
£25,000.00-£25,700.00 per year

Schedule: