Accounts Payable Assistant (12 month FTC)

NorthStandard Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave + bank holidays

Annual company bonus scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Structured learning and development

Brand new office in Dublin

Gym allowance

Job summary

NorthStandard Group is seeking an Accounts Payable Assistant in Newcastle upon Tyne for a 12-month fixed term. You will join a busy Payments Team in the Finance department and support our member brokers and internal customers with timely payments and clear documentation.

Key responsibilities include handling payments, documentation, queries, and reporting, plus buddying new teammates and using banking software. The role offers development opportunities within a growing marine insurer environment.

Qualifications

• Attention to detail and accuracy are essential.
• Good teamwork and collaboration with others.
• Clear verbal and written communication.
• Proactive ideas and initiative to improve processes.
• Basic accounting experience or knowledge required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure payments are made correctly and timely per guidelines.
• Prepare and link supporting documentation for each payment.
• Take turn on team rotas as needed.
• Cover other payment roles as necessary.
• Handle internal and external queries promptly and escalate when needed.
• Perform general administrative tasks.
• Buddy new team members and support their onboarding.
• Use banking and accounting software.
• Attend team and finance meetings.
• Identify errors and provide backups/reports for corrections.
• Inform head of department or senior exec about process issues.

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Communication skills

Proactivity

Basic accounting

Job description

We are looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Assistant on a 12 month fixed term basis. The role will be based in Newcastle upon Tyne. We're ideally looking for someone who can start in early December 2026.

The purpose of the role is to work as part of a busy Payments Team within the Finance dept, to ensure that exceptional service is provided to our member/ brokers and internal customers.

What will you be doing?

Key responsibilities will include:

• 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.

About you - Skills/Qualifications/Experience

• Attention to detail and ability to work accurately;
• Good team-working skills;
• Good communication skills, verbal and written;
• Proactive ideas and initiative;
• Basic accounting experience/skills.

Who we are

We are a specialist marine insurer and a member of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity clubs, owned by its shipowner members and controlled by a board of directors drawn from its membership. We’re one of the world’s leading and most influential P&I Clubs. Employing over 600 people globally, we provide an unmatched depth and breadth of expertise to our members.

Our culture and what to expect from us

Our culture is hugely important to us enabling us to fulfil our brand promise, ‘Taking on tomorrow, together’. Together we are empowered, inquisitive and courageous, giving the best of ourselves to our colleagues, customers, members and the communities we serve.

We provide excellent service to members, build long-lasting relationships built on trust and understanding, and treat our colleagues in the same way. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, we all act as role models and celebrate our cultural principles.

We provide our people with a fantastic benefits package including:

• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays (rising with length of service).
• An annual company bonus scheme
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Insurance
• Structured learning and development with support towards obtaining professional qualifications that are relevant to your job.
• An brand new office in Dublin
• Gym allowance and much more

Salary from £22,500, with scope to increase depending on experience