Accounts Payable Manager

Sewell Wallis are working with an organisation on the outskirts of Sheffield, who are looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Manager. Although this is a permanent vacancy, any candidates seeking an interim assignment for a period of 6-12 months, can also be considered.

This South Yorkshire-based role will be pivotal in ensuring the effective operation of the Accounts Payable function throughout the organisation. The key duties will involve overseeing various process and efficiency improvements, involvement in a new system implementation and developing a supportive team.

What will you be doing?

• Ensure accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, ensuring appropriate controls are in place to protect the integrity of the volume and range of financial transactions overseen.
• Ensure monthly supplier reconciliations are completed on all accounts, identifying and resolving any discrepancies in a timely manner to ensure the account is up to date.
• Ensuring the weekly payment run is accurate and paid on time through the exercise of robust controls and appropriate review and follow up.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with suppliers and key internal and external stakeholders, regularly liaising with them to ensure effective ways of working and process adherence. Be the stakeholder's main point of contact and resolve their queries.
• Manage and resolve Email Management System query queues to agreed SLA's.
• Work as a part of a senior leadership team, providing reports and analysis, mitigating risks and working on shared tasks and projects.
• High volume transactional processing ensuring that polices, and processes are adhered to in respect of these transactions and that financial and reputation risk is minimised.
• Apply subject-specific technical expertise and insight, initiative and judgement to ensure the highest standards of enquiry resolution and process adherence and compliance are achieved.
• Ensure that evolving technical requirements are appropriately recorded, process-mapped and agreed with stakeholders, to ensure continued compliance.
• Ensure compliance with relevant laws, accounting standards and policies. Understand and work within GDPR and confidentiality practices.
• Foster and maintain a spirit of continuous development, looking to grow excellent service delivery to customers and create a positive working environment for team members.
• Establish, lead, guide and develop the purchase ledger team. Implement a performance management culture in line with policies, including making sure that 1-1s, performance and development reviews and team meetings take place regularly and with recorded outcomes and actions.

What skills are we looking for?

• Experience of running a large accounts payable function and the operation of a strong
  financial control environment.
• Experience of working with large, complex finance data sets, managing month and year-end finance processes.
• Experience in leading people through organisation, process and technology change.
• Has in depth knowledge and understanding of accounting principles and demonstrable experience of leading a team to deliver within these parameters.

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working
• Flexible working hours
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing with length of service
• 8% matched pension
• Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Retail Discount scheme

Send us your CV below or contact Lawrie Bacon for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.