Accounts Payable - Deputy Team Leader

Astro Studios, Inc.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Deputy Team Leader to join their finance shared service team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, balancing office presence with remote work. You will manage supplier invoices and queries, ensuring efficient processing while collaborating with various stakeholders. The position emphasizes attention to detail, effective communication, and problem-solving skills. Join a diverse team dedicated to innovation and growth, where your contributions will help shape a positive future in finance. If you are looking for a role that offers career development and the chance to make a real impact, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Generous company pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail for accurate financial approvals.
• Excellent communication skills for managing queries.
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage invoice match exceptions and assist colleagues.
• Support Accounts Payable Manager with daily activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers for queries.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Education

Experience with PeopleSoft

Experience with MS Excel

Supervisory experience

Tools

PeopleSoft

MS Excel

Job description

Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Back Lane, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DP, United Kingdom, Melbourn SG8 6DP, GB

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Flexible working - We work in a hybrid environment, where you will be required to come into our office in Melbourn, Cambridge two days a week.

As Deputy Team Leader, this is an exciting opportunity to join an active team in a central role. The team is part of the finance shared service which manages supplier invoices and queries across multiple regions and currencies, ensuring the efficient processing of invoices and payments of up to 20,000 invoices annually to meet both business and payment performance requirements.

Supporting the Accounts Payable Manager in all day-to-day activities and being the point of contact when the Manager is unavailable. The role responsibilities also include managing invoice match exceptions, payment run reviews and approvals, supplier profile corrections and updates, and month-end reconciliations. Some tasks have shared responsibility with the Manager, and additional ad hoc tasks will arise.

The role requires collaboration with stakeholders, such as the Accounts Payable Manager and immediate team colleagues, plus other Finance, Procurement, and Supplier personnel, both locally and globally. External contact with suppliers is also required.

It will be key to develop good professional relationships with all stakeholders as well as managing payment expectations, learning and understanding PA's PeopleSoft purchasing accounting system, and problem-solving.

This role reports into the Accounts Payable Manager.

Task breakdown guide

1. 50% - Invoice match exception review, resolution, colleague assistance & report management
2. 5% - Supplier profile corrections and updates
3. 5% - Month end reconciliations
4. 5% - System process testing
5. 5% - Adhoc tasks

Qualifications

• Great attention to detail, for timely, accurate approvals of important financial information.
• Excellent communication skills, to work with people at all levels, to manage and resolve queries internally and externally.
• Good organisation skills, ability to multi-task and experience with working to meet deadlines.
• Excellent team working skills, being open-minded to varying points of view, and working with a can-do positive approach.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft and MS Excel would be beneficial, as would previous supervisory experience, although this is not compulsory, as the position is an opportunity for career development in this area for the right individual.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.