Accounts Payable Coordinator

Durham University; Durham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Durham University is seeking an Accounts Payable Coordinator to oversee processing functions for student stipends and supplier invoices. The role involves team management and compliance with financial operations, ensuring efficiency and accuracy within a newly established professional services hub in Boldon House.

Qualifications

• Experience in accounts payable or financial services essential.
• Ability to deal with queries and manage a small team.
• Competence in compiling Standard Operating Procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assist with processing student stipend payments.
• Manage workload for a sub-function team within accounts payable.
• Compile financial data and handle supplier invoices.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team management

Financial data processing

Education

Degree in Finance or related field

Job description

The Role and the Department

Financial Services represents the larger part of the Finance Department and includes all the processing and compliance functions including eg payroll, accounts payable, student services, credit control and compliance.

Reporting to the Accounts Payable Team Leader Finance, this is a business facing function supporting the organisations a whole and at all levels with respect to managing the payments to students and suppliers for goods and services:

• Assist with the processing of student stipend payments
• Assist with the processing of supplier invoices
• Compiling Standard Operating Principles
• Responsible for the compilation of financial data and processing adjustments as required
• Deal with queries
• Management of a team with the Accounts Payable function
• Any other duties as required in the context of Transactional Accounting services team

Work efficiently and effectively as part of the Accounts Payable team to provide a high quality service.

The Accounts Payable coordinator will manage the workload for a small sub-function team within the accounts payable section, with assistance from the the Accounts Payable Team Leader Finance.

From early 2025 the base location for this role will change from our Durham City Centre site to our exciting new professional services hub based at Boldon House. Boldon House is situated on the outskirts of Durham near the Arnison Centre in Pity Me. Boldon House will bring a number of professional services teams together in a vibrant office environment which supports collaborative working and is designed to embrace hybrid working. To find out more about this project, please visit this webpage: Boldon House - Durham University.