Accounts Payable Assistant

Harding Retail; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing retailer is seeking an experienced Accounts Payable Assistant to join their Finance team in Avonmouth. The successful candidate will support daily finance operations, process vendor invoices, and enhance team efficiency. With a hybrid working model and a commitment to diverse hiring, this role promises to be both rewarding and dynamic.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Pension

4x life assurance

Healthcare cash plan

26 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Experienced within Accounts Payable.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work alone as well as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Process vendor invoices ensuring a three-way match.
• Resolve discrepancies with stakeholders timely.
• Manage payment deadlines and stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Job description

Here at Harding+, we are currently recruiting for an experienced Accounts Payable Assistant to join our Finance team, you will be passionate about identifying new ways of working as well as all things AP.

It’s a great time to join us, as a growing and scaling retailer with a twist, working and innovating together helps us realise our purpose to ‘make every cruise better’.

About the role:

As an Accounts Payable Assistant your core focus will be to support across BAU as well as contributing to the continuous improvement of the team.

The finance team is a team of over 30, split between Financial Control and Commercial Finance, providing a critical function to ensure the ongoing success of the business.

Based in Avonmouth on a hybrid working basis – 2 days per week in the office

Compensation – competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 26 days annual leave

What you will be doing:

• Responsibility for processing allocated vendor invoices for stock purchases, by ensuring a three-way match between invoice, goods receipt, and the purchase order
• Work with the relevant stakeholders, internal and external, to resolve any instances of discrepancies within the invoices in a timely manner to ensure the invoices are paid on time
• Manage stakeholder relationships (internal and external) and ensure payment deadlines are met
• Respond to queries sent to the Purchase Ledger inbox for set vendors to ensure communication streams are managed efficiently
• Perform supplier reconciliations on request to identify any missing invoices or payments
• Setting up new vendor accounts on the system
• Ad hoc duties as required by the Transactional Finance Manager or Financial Controller

About you:

• Experienced within Account Payable
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work alone as well as part of a team
• Must have an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK

Key Attributes – trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive, resilience

About us:

Harding+ is the only 100% dedicated cruise retailer, proudly partnering with 12 cruise line operators globally, across more than 80+ cruise ships either in operation or under contract. Our mission is simple: make every cruise better. We operate over 300 retail shops across 80+ ships, covering 17,000m² of retail space and handling 6.6 million transactions annually.

Our team includes over 1,300 onboard team members and more than 270 landside employees, we stay at the forefront of retailing and consistently provide outstanding customer service, culminating in winning the Cruise Retailer of the Year award for 2022 and 2023.

Harding+ is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding+.

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