Senior AP Accountant

Noon Academy; Street; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company that prioritizes student success and values diversity. As a Senior Accounts Payable, you will play a crucial role in ensuring timely processing of invoices and payments, while also supporting a collaborative team culture. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment where your contributions will directly impact the education of millions. With a focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, you'll thrive in a setting that encourages originality and ownership. Embrace the chance to shape the future of learning and make a difference in students' lives.

Benefits

Flexitime

21 days annual leave

Full premium Medical coverage

Life Assurance

Well-stocked fridge with snacks

Regular social activities

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Accounts Payable experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and expense recognition.

Responsibilities

• Verify and process invoices and payment requests.
• Prepare monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide excellent customer service to stakeholders.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Accounting Principles

Reconciliation Skills

Customer Service

Deadline Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

ERP System (Oracle preferred)

Excel

Job description

About Noon

At Noon, we believe in Student First in everything we do. That’s why we’ve built a global social learning platform that radically changes the way people learn, with the aim of positively impacting millions of students across the globe and bringing education to everyone.

Our open platform is loved by 10+ million students across 8 countries and is growing all the time – our aim is to radically transform the lives of 50+ million learners by 2023! Our students use Noon every day to engage with live interactive classes and gamified peer learning features, study with celebrity teachers, and compete and socialise with their friends.

We are a distributed company with a collaborative culture. We come from a diverse set of backgrounds and countries, enabling us to work at a global scale whilst bringing local impact by being a part of the communities we serve. As a fast-paced, innovative scaling business, our ability to learn at speed is powered by our obsession with our “student-first” culture that ultimately defines what we do and why we do it. Our principles: Student first, Never Deprive a Learner, Be Better Everyday, Be original, Own It & Be Bold. These values got us to where we are today, and they’re a big part of what we’re looking for in you.

What you will do

As a Senior Accounts Payable you will verify and process system invoices as well as requests for payment. You will also maintain payment files and execute check generation jobs through completion.

Responsibilities

1. Follow company processes, controls and policies
2. Create and take action on month-end accounts payable reports
3. Receive invoices, perform necessary validations and execute transactions with timeliness
4. Resolve issues, serve as a resource in troubleshooting complex matters and ensure that problems are responded to in a timely manner
5. Demonstrate leadership skills and develop new employees
6. Provide excellent customer service to all stakeholders, including vendors, facilities and colleagues
7. Ensure company policies, processes, and procedures are clearly defined, updated and documented
8. Preparation, review and posting of monthly journal entries to the general ledger
9. Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information
10. Maintain and balance subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies
11. Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
12. Manage procurement operations for finance organization
13. Invoice review, payments, vendor management, and assistance with prepaid and accrued expenses
14. Assist with monthly close process including financial analysis and financial reporting
15. Support annual audits and tax return working in concert with external auditors
16. Other duties as required

About you

Requirements

1. Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance
2. Good understanding of accounting/book-keeping and expense recognition principles
3. 3-5 years minimum Accounts Payable experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, high-volume accounting environment
4. Sound working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
5. Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
6. Experience using an ERP system (Oracle will be value added)
7. Good skills in reconciliation
8. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines

About the Benefits

You will be joining the world's first social learning platform where you can have a real impact in a smart, low-ego, multi-cultural team. We provide an environment where you can develop your skills and deliver meaningful work that matters. You’ll be able to enjoy a competitive salary as well as a full spectrum of generous perks and rewards:

1. Flexitime and a great work-life balance, including 2-3 days working from home per week
2. 21 days annual leave
3. Full premium Medical coverage including Family Dependants
4. Life Assurance to help you protect your future
5. A well-stocked fridge, plenty of snacks (some healthy, some not so healthy)
6. Regular social activities, including team outings in line with Covid-19 guidelines

Why work at Noon?

1. The opportunity to work within an innovative start-up in its initial stages and help shape our success globally
2. Work with a team who believes in STUDENT FIRST, you will have an opportunity to build the first (BE ORIGINAL) Open Social Learning Platform that can impact millions of students across the globe
3. A working environment where you can look at things differently and challenge and offer solutions and that also offers you the freedom to commit ‘n’ number of first-time mistakes – NEVER DEPRIVE A LEARNER
4. Complete ownership and responsibility for the success of your autonomous team across all scope of works – OWN IT and BE BOLD
5. An opportunity to work with a bunch of Young, Smart, Driven, and Dynamic people who are committed to go BEYOND SELF and solve business challenges
6. Work closely with the leadership team who live by the value of BE BETTER EVERYDAY to help grow an amazing organisation
7. Help us to build the future of education!

About Diversity & Inclusion

At Noon, we respect and value differences. We know that when people from different backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value – for our clients, our people, and society. We’re so lucky to live in a society where differences are celebrated, so we’d expect nothing less from our teams. That means whatever your race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender, this is a place to feel at home, express yourself freely, and make your mark. Noon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation. We aim to be truly representative of the world and for each and every employee to feel respected.