Accounts Payable Processor

City & Guilds Training; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical healthcare

Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Enhanced Company Pension

Job summary

City & Guilds in Wakefield is seeking a permanent Accounts Payable Processor to join our Finance team. This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring a minimum of two days in the Wakefield office, with core hours 9:00am to 5:00pm and a 35-hour week.

You will process invoices, match to purchase orders, handle expense claims, prepare payment proposals, reconcile supplier statements and allocate direct debits, while responding to inbound queries.

Qualifications

• Experience in accounts payable including reconciliations and invoice matching.
• Strong Excel skills are essential.
• Good time management and ability to work in a small team with vendors.

Responsibilities

• Process new invoices including PO matching and direct invoice entry.
• Process expense claims and employee expenses.
• Prepare payment proposals for ledgers.

Skills

Excel skills

Accounts payable

Time management

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a permanent Accounts Payable Processor to join our Finance team in Wakefield!

We are offering a full-time role, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

This is currently a hybrid position, so candidates must be within commuting distance of our Wakefield office.

You will be required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.

Our standard working hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm, although some flexibility around start and finish times can be accommodated.

We offer an interesting and busy role, along with a competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

Applicants must have previous experience working within Accounts Payable, including reconciliations and invoice matching. GoodExcel skills are essential.

At City & Guilds we recognise that an unconditional commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) is fundamental to delivering our purpose of helping people, organisations and economies develop the skill they need for growth, and this extends to all people, organisations and wider stakeholders we work with, wherever we work.

We feel that City & Guilds is an organisation that reflects the diversity of modern society and is an inclusive organisation that ensures that everyone is supported so that they can achieve their best.

We encourage and welcome applications from members of underrepresented communities.

City & Guilds are a Disability confident employer. Please let us know if you require any support/adjustments at your interview and if successful any adjustments needed to support you in your role. If this is required, please email; [e-mail]

About the role

You will be:

• Processing new invoices - matching to Purchase Orders and direct invoice entry
• Processing expense claims, associate fees and employee expenses
• Preparing payment proposals for the ledgers
• Supplier statement reconciliations for 3rd party vendors
• Allocate direct debit payments to the correct invoices
• Handle inbound queries both directly and to shared inboxes

About you

You must have previous experience of working within an accounts payable function that includes matching three way, two way and direct invoice entry. Good reconciliation skills are essential too.

You will need to have great time management skills, meeting deadlines and the ability to work in a small team and build good working relationships with vendors and colleagues.

Our Story and Mission

To find out more about City & Guilds please click on the following link:

About us | City & Guilds

What we offer

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.

You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Private medical healthcare, Life Assurance, Group Income Protection, enhanced Company Pension and many others voluntary benefits.

Employees health and wellbeing is very important to the Group, and we have a range of tools available to help employees with their mental health and wellbeing and lots more besides.

In support of financial wellbeing, we offer our employees access to Imagine Nudge. This is a great tool and helps employees focus on different areas of their finances.

We also provide access to a Group wide Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role. You must have existing eligibility to work in the UK.