Anderson Knight are currently recruiting for a well known organisation in Glasgow city centre who are looking for an Accounts Payable Manager on a permanent basis. This role offers hybrid working and a salary of up to £45,000 per annum.
Duties & Responsibilities:
* Lead the Accounts Payable team to ensure an effective service delivery for staff, students and suppliers ensuring the efficient management and deployment of staff resources are well-utilised.
* Deliver and adhere to a strong financial control environment across the team, including adherence to financial guidelines, policies, procedures and delivery against month end and year end timetables and all internal and external audit requirements.
* Oversee operational management arrangements to deliver, implement and achieve a high- quality and performance, as well as providing an effective, flexible, and responsive administrative support.
* Develop a qualitative set of team KPIs and SLAs to support delivery of Service Excellence and key metrics reporting and to develop, maintain and deliver meaningful management reporting for the team against these indicators.
* Oversee, monitor and review supplier portfolio to ensure effective management, prioritisation and mitigation of supplier accounts going on stop.
* Proactively work in partnership with finance, academic and professional services colleagues across the organisation to standardise, streamline and improve processes and practices to enhance service delivery and ensuring appropriate financial control is in place.
* Actively engage and contribute to finance related activities involving liaising with colleagues and stakeholders with enquiries, preparing reports and statistical information and providing guidance on administrative processes relating to payables management.
* Ensure team members are trained, have the required knowledge and understanding, and have effective systems in place to provide up-to-date and accurate documentation, information, support, advice, and guidance to key stakeholders, including annual review of all standard operating procedures across the team.
* Conduct regular one to one and team meetings to support the development of a high performing team, to communicate and engage on new initiatives and provide opportunity for contribution from team members.
* Monitor, manage and ensure timely resolution of all internal customer and supplier enquiries are resolved within set service level agreements.
* Working in partnership with finance operations management and other finance and non-finance colleagues to contribute to projects and key strategic priorities, as and when required.
* Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the team.
* Create and maintain a culture of service excellence and control to delivery against key performance indicators, service level agreements and finance strategies.
* Maintain technical knowledge through educational workshops, conferences, keeping up to date with current developments, governance and compliance requirements and contribution to policies and procedures, considering any legislation.
If this is something you’d like to hear more about, please contact Richard Brown at Anderson Knight for a confidential chat