Accounts Payable Facilitator - 12 Month FTC

Astro Studios, Inc.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting in Melbourn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, is seeking an Accounts Payable Facilitator on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role covers invoice posting, payments, and supplier queries within a multi-currency finance shared service.

The successful candidate will collaborate with the Accounts Payable Manager and global teams, using PeopleSoft and Excel to deliver daily KPIs and month-end deliverables. Hybrid work with a minimum in-office presence two days per week.

Qualifications

• Great attention to detail to ensure timely, accurate approvals of financial information.
• Excellent communication skills to work with people at all levels, to manage and resolve queries.
• Good organisation and multi-tasking to meet deadlines.
• Strong teamwork and a positive, can-do attitude.
• Familiarity with PeopleSoft and MS Excel is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Invoice posting and matching to purchase orders (approx. 50%).
• Helpdesk and query resolution (approx. 25%).
• Process payment runs (approx. 15%).
• Adhoc tasks (approx. 5%).

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organisation

Teamwork

Financial accuracy

Tools

PeopleSoft

MS Excel

Job description

Accounts Payable Facilitator - 12 Month FTC

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 teams of interdisciplinary 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.

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week to include a Tuesday and Wednesday. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.
• This role is based at ourMelbourn, Hertfordshire office
• 12m FTC

We are looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Facilitator on a 12m fixed term contract. 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.

Managing payment expectations and problem solving. Also learning and understanding PAs PeopleSoft purchasing accounting system, to support daily KPIs and monthly deliverables.

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.

This role reports into the Accounts Payable Manager.

Task breakdown guide

• 50% - Invoice posting & matching to purchase orders
• 25% - Helpdesk / Query Resolution
• 15% - Process payment runs
• 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 point of views, and working with a can-do positive approach.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft and MS Excel would be beneficial.

Additional information

Life at PA

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 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 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 at: [e-mail]