Accounts Payable Supervisor

Job Role: Accounts Payable Supervisor

Location: Hybrid - Any office 

Hours: 35 hours Per week Monday to Friday 

As an Accounts Payable Supervisor, you will contribute to our vision of being the leader of residential real estate services in the UK by:

• First point of contact for all accounts payable queries
• Preparation of payment runs for review by Transaction Manager
• Delivering a strong control environment for the accounts payable function

  This role reports to the Transactions Manager.

  Key Accountabilities

• Manage the Central AP mailbox to ensure all internal and external queries are processed in line with SLA.
• Responsible for validating new supplier bank details and controlling the Supplier Master file.
• Controlling the Purchase to Pay functionality within the accounting system, ensuring that variances are investigated and rectified in accordance with system controls.
• Reconcile vendor and nominal accounts as part of the month end processes.
• Initial preparation of cyclical payment runs for review by manager, including monthly, ad-hoc and landlord rental payments.
• Control of the accounts payable ledger, ensuring that all accounts are in a credit position and all significant aging is investigated.
• Control of the direct debits master file
• Support the Finance Director with Group related project work.
• Support the integrations team with the onboarding of acquired businesses into the Emeria UK Group.
  
  Experience

• Prior experience in a working in a finance environment.
• Friendly professional manner, comfortable communicating with peers, other departments and external stakeholders.
• Inquisitive nature, keen problem solver, self-starter and sense of owning workstreams.
• Proactive and careful approach.
• Basic to intermediate excel skills.
• Experience with Workday or similar ERP is preferable
• Excellent time management skills. Clear understanding of and ability to meet deadlines.

• Friendly professional manner, comfortable communicating with peers, other departments, and external stakeholders.
• Excellent time management skills. Clear understanding of and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ambitious to develop and grow within the Group finance function.

The Benefits

Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people.  We’ll support you with all of the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well.  We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages. In addition to the core benefits, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health.

Diversity

We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit.  We will consider applications from job share applicants.

Ready to Apply?

Click the below apply button to start your application for this role.  We will ask you to upload your CV and answer a few questions. 

If you meet the criteria for the role we’ll be in touch to arrange a short telephone interview and our shortlist of candidates will be invited to attend interviews with the hiring manager and up to three other key stakeholders.