Accounts Payable Assistant

Nxtgen Recruitment; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global employer based in Gloucester seeks an Accounts Payable & Expenses Assistant. This role includes processing purchase invoices in SAP, reconciling accounts, and managing employee expenses. Ideal candidates have experience in high-volume environments and using SAP, along with compliance knowledge. Salary depends on experience.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in a fast-paced transactional environment.
• Confidence in handling supplier and internal customer queries.

Responsibilities

• Process a high volume of purchase invoices within an SAP system.
• Review intercompany transactions and ensure correct coding.
• Prepare weekly payment runs.
• Reconcile supplier accounts for ledger integrity.
• Review and process employee expenses for compliance.
• Manage ad hoc queries.

Skills

SAP

High volume processing

Intercompany transactions

Compliance with HMRC guidelines

Job description

NXTGEN have an immediate requirement for an Accounts Payable & Expenses Assistant to join a market leading and global employer based in Cheltenham. Working as part of a large and established AP & AR team, the Accounts Payable Assistant will play a fundamental role in ensuring that both external suppliers are paid to pre‑agreed terms. You will effectively attribute costs within an SAP system, monitoring all payment and matching Purchase Orders where applicable. The Accounts Payable Assistant will also review and process all employee expenses, cross referencing receipts to ensure payments are made in a timely manner and are compliant with guidelines.

Key responsibilities within the role will include:

• Processing a high volume of purchase invoices within an SAP system, ensuring all PO's match where applicable
• Review intercompany transactions and invoices to ensure they are coded correctly
• Prepare weekly payment runs
• Reconcile supplier accounts to ensure ledger integrity
• Review, process and approve employee expenses, ensuring compliance with HMRC guidelines at all times
• Managing ad hoc queries when required

The successful candidate will ideally have prior experience working within a fast paced and high volume transactional environment, combined with the experience of working with multiple currencies. Demonstrable experience using SAP would be significantly advantageous within the role too. Candidates will need to be confident dealing with a high volume of supplier and internal customer queries in a timely and effective manner.

Salary offered is dependant on experience.