Finance Associate - Accounts Payable

Astro Studios, Inc.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Astro Studios, Inc. is seeking a Finance Associate to join its Accounts Payable Team in Bristol. This role involves handling invoice processing, resolving payment queries, and ensuring accuracy across transactions in a multi-currency environment. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills, excellent communication, and experience in financial systems.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Great attention to detail for accurate financial recording.
• Excellent communication skills for managing and resolving queries.
• Previous experience in a large, global, multicurrency role beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Timely and accurate input and payment of invoices in multiple regions.
• Helpdesk and query resolution in the Accounts Payable team.
• Processing payment runs and managing payment expectations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team working

Organization

Communication

Education

Experience in accounting system

Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook

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 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.

A Finance Associate in the Accounts Payable Team will be responsible for the timely and accurate input and payment of invoices in multiple regions and currencies. This includes the resolution of payment queries, whilst applying a strong customer service work ethic, and contributing to the 20,000 invoices processed annually for this international organisation.

Key Accountabilities:

- 50% Invoice posting and matching to purchase order

- 25% Helpdesk / Query resolution

- 15% Processing payments runs

Key Relationships:

Working collaboratively with stakeholders, such as the Accounts Payable Manager and immediate team colleagues, plus other Finance, Procurement and Supplier personnel, both locally and globally.

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

- Developing professional relationships with an established team of Finance Associates, together with PAs wider stakeholders.


Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Qualifications

• Great attention to detail, for swift, accurate keying and recording of important financial information.
• Excellent team working skills, working with a can-do positive approach.
• Good organisation skills, ability to multi-task and experience of working to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, to manage and resolve queries internally with ordering personnel, and externally with PAs suppliers.
• Previous experience of using an accounting system in a large, global, multicurrency role is beneficial.
• A working knowledge of Microsoft, in particular Excel and Outlook would also be beneficial.

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.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

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
• 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’re committed to advancing equality.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 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 on [e-mail]

#LI-AG1