Accounts Payable Clerk

Absolute Recruit; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Absolute Recruit is hiring an experienced Accounts Payable Assistant for a fast-paced, creative agency in London. You will own key AP tasks end-to-end, support production, experiential, influencer and PR teams, and help improve processes in a lively finance team.

The ideal candidate has prior AP experience in a project-based environment, strong attention to detail and solid Excel skills. This hybrid role offers £38k salary and a collaborative finance team culture.

Qualifications

• Previous Accounts Payable experience within an agency, media, production or similar project-based environment is essential.
• Good understanding of the full AP process, from supplier set-up through to payment and reconciliation.
• Experience with purchase orders, expenses, reconciliations and payment runs.

Responsibilities

• Processing supplier invoices, ensuring accurate coding, approvals and PO matching.
• Taking ownership of the AP ledger and keeping supplier accounts accurate and up to date.
• Setting up new suppliers and maintaining supplier records.
• Raising and managing purchase orders.
• Handling supplier queries and building strong relationships with suppliers and internal teams.
• Supporting regular payment runs.
• Managing employee expenses through Pleo.
• Assisting with bank and credit card reconciliations.
• Supporting project reconciliations.
• Assisting with month-end processes and reporting.
• Working across finance systems including Concept and Pleo.
• Supporting improvements to AP processes and financial controls.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

Excel skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Concept

Pleo

Job description

Experienced AP Assistant needed for a fast-paced creative agency. £38k, hybrid working with 3 days from home and a brilliant team culture.

Salary: £38,000

Location: London

Hybrid: 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home

We’re working with an award-winning creative communications agency looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Assistant to join their Finance team.

This is a busy, hands-on AP role within a fast-paced creative environment, supporting teams across production, experiential, influencer, PR and creative. It would suit someone who enjoys working at pace, is confident dealing with people across a business and likes taking ownership of their workload.

The Role

You’ll support the accounts payable process from end to end, with responsibilities including:

• Processing supplier invoices, ensuring accurate coding, approvals and PO matching
• Taking ownership of the AP ledger and keeping supplier accounts accurate and up to date
• Setting up new suppliers and maintaining supplier records
• Raising and managing purchase orders
• Handling supplier queries and building strong relationships with suppliers and internal teams
• Supporting regular payment runs
• Managing employee expenses through Pleo
• Assisting with bank and credit card reconciliations
• Supporting project reconciliations
• Assisting with month-end processes and reporting
• Working across finance systems including Concept and Pleo
• Supporting improvements to AP processes and financial controls

What We’re Looking For

• Previous Accounts Payable experience within an agency, media, production or similar project-based environment is essential
• Good understanding of the full AP process, from supplier set-up through to payment and reconciliation
• Experience with purchase orders, expenses, reconciliations and payment runs
• Strong attention to detail and organisation
• Comfortable managing a busy workload and changing priorities
• Confident communicating with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Good Excel and general systems skills
• Proactive, reliable and comfortable problem solving
• Experience with Concept and/or Pleo would be beneficial

This is a great opportunity to join a sociable, ambitious creative business with an excellent reputation and a collaborative Finance team.