Account Payable Manager - Manchester Airport, United Kingdom - Otto James Consulting

Otto James Consulting

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Manchester Airport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Home Working Flexibility

- £35,000 plus bens

Otto James Consulting are working with a truly fantastic retail organisation at Head Office level that is seeking an experienced Accounts Payable Manager, ideally with a retail sector background acting in a similar role.

Based in South Manchester, the client is easily accessible by road and rail, while also offering home working flexibility.

Main duties:

Managing a friendly finance AP team. This will include all aspects of management, such as recruitment and training, development and motivation of the team.
Overseeing obligations and activities to ensure they are completed accurately and on time, to the high company standards.
Setting and driving forward departmental objectives.
Conceiving and implementing department budgets and practices to ensure efficiency and accuracy.
Building and maintaining relationships with all internal staff and stakeholders, as well as clients and third party organisations.
Prepare supplier payments, ensuring all suppliers are paid timely and correctly.

Other functions would include:

Cash Flow management for scheduled payments.
Ensuring banking information is correct and balances are reconciled for payments.
Managing direct debits and other payments matching against received invoices.
Dealing with escalated queries from internal / external stakeholders.
Calculation of supplier rebates.
Producing an outstanding PO report on a monthly basis.
Reconciling the aged creditors report and ensuring all suppliers are up to date.
Posting invoices to the MS Dynamics NAV system as needed.
Seeking authorisation for invoices when required.
Verifying supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes.
Reconciling invoices to supplier's statements.
Any other adhoc duties required by the Financial Controller.

Required Skills and Experience:

Accounts Payable experience to a senior level.
Proven experience in being the strong leader of an Accounts Payable team.
Experience of reconciling ledgers.
Experience of working with nonfinancial department stakeholders to solve problems.
Proven MS Office, and particularly Excel, skills
Excellent communicator, both written and orally
Be selfmotivated and possess proven team worker skills