Accounts Payable Supervisor France

Nomad Foods Inc; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the frozen food sector seeks an Accounts Payable professional to manage the AP function within their Shared Finance Centre. The role involves coordinating invoice processing, ensuring accurate payments, and maintaining supplier relationships. Ideal candidates will have 2+ years of experience and strong communication skills, with opportunities for career development in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Accounts Payable experience required.
• Experience in invoice processing and query resolution.
• Strong communication and organisational skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day activities of the AP Team.
• Ensure timely processing of invoices and payments.
• Maintain control of the AP ledger and perform reconciliations.

Skills

Organisational skills

Prioritisation skills

Communication skills

Coaching skills

IT skills

Education

Recognised accounting qualification (AAT preferred)

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Overview

Nomad Foods was formed in 2015 and with revenues of €2.6bn is the largest frozen food company in Europe. Nomad owns a portfolio of leading brands including Birds Eye, Findus, and Iglo, supplemented in 2018 with the purchase of Goodfellas Pizza and Aunt Bessie’s, and in 2021 with the purchase of Ledo and Frikom.

We manufacture and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 22 European countries with the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and France representing our five largest markets.

The long-term goal of Nomad is to develop a global portfolio of best-in-class food brands by growing organically and through strategic M&A.

We are proposing that our new Shared Finance Centre will house both our Financial Accounting teams and our Financial Planning and Analysis Centre of Expertise.

Our vision is to build trusted, equal partnerships through the delivery of timely and valuable services that will ensure growth and business success for Nomad Foods. The team will deliver a step change in performance through a relentless focus on excellence in execution and continuous improvement, enabling us to simplify and standardise our processes and procedures, which in turn, enables quality decision-making, delights our customers, and supports Nomad Food’s business objectives.

The Shared Finance Centre will be an outstanding place to work for finance professionals, with new and exciting opportunities to develop careers and by being recognised alongside the very best by our people.

This position will report into the Accounts Payable Manager and provide guidance and experience across the Accounts Payable function, ensuring financial transactions are recorded in a timely and accurate manner, maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders both internally and externally. Key support provided to team members and acts as senior contact in AP in manager’s absence.

Responsibilities

• Managing and coordinating the day-to-day activities of the AP Team
• Ensure the timely and accurate processing of invoices and credits received
• Ensure Non-PO items are correctly approved and are posted as per coding provided, in line with the manual approval authorisation matrix
• Ensure accurate and on time payments to suppliers
• Ensure adequate controls are in place and are regularly performed with due care.
• Ensure accurate Supplier statement reconciliations, GRNI ageing, Debit balances, KPI reporting, at least monthly and then as required
• Maintain control of the AP ledger in all aspects, in line with the P2P policy, SOX, Internal Control and External Audit
• Investigate, resolve, and respond to internal and external customer queries promptly, using best practice
• Month End tasks to be completed accurately and on time as per the Month End timetable including reconciliations of the ledger
• Monitor and age GRNI balances providing training on receipting where required
• Ensure all accounts payable queries are dealt with correctly and efficiently
• Ensure the ERP system is understood, and issues or enhancements escalated to resolution
• Exhibit positive role model behaviour, ensuring an environment that promotes a professional, open culture, fosters teamwork, flexibility, and enables continuous development of the team
• Provide guidance and support to all staff within the department and encourage the implementation of best practice
• Communicate fully, to your manager, all situations that may affect the department’s ability to meet standards or deadlines.
• Ensure all Company policies, systems and procedures are adhered to

Qualifications

Essential

• >2 years Accounts Payable Experience
• Experience in invoice processing, query resolution, P/O and GRNI
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
• Good IT skills with an intermediate / working knowledge of Excel
• Strong coaching and people management skills
• Strong communication skills
• High organised and a demonstrative ability to prioritise work
• Numerate and logical
• Ability to escalate any issues/problems to the AP Manager when necessary
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to make timely and rational decisions based on relevant information and experience
• Ability to effective management suppliers through strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work efficiently whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail

Desirable

• A recognised accounting qualification such as AAT, studying towards a recognised accounting qualification is preferred
• Previous experience working in a Shared Service Environment
• SAP experience