Employment Type: Contract 24 month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Hybrid · Swindon, UK. We offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home.
Salary: £24,208 (GBP) Pro-rata, plus generous benefits
Team: Corporate Services - Finance and Procurement
Seniority: Junior
* Closing: 11:59pm, 6th Apr 2025 BST
Perks and Benefits
* Work from home option
* Wellness programs
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Additional parental leave
* Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
* Paid emergency leave
* Sabbatical Opportunities
* Mentoring/coaching
* Payroll giving
* Salary sacrifice
* Team social events
* Team lunches
* Extracurricular clubs
* Cycle to work scheme
Job Description
Summary
We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as an Accounts Payable Supervisor in our Finance Team.
This is a 24 month Fixed Term Contract.
The location of this role is Swindon where we offer hybrid working; you will be based in the Swindon office and from home.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
What You Will Be Doing
As Accounts Payable Supervisor, you will supervise the accurate processing of all data to ensure payments are made to suppliers, grant recipients, and staff within given service levels, using various financial systems.
You will support the Accounts Payable Assistants in accurately processing supplier invoices, grants, payment requests, and associated transactions (including BACS rejects, cancelled, and uncleared cheques), in line with desk procedures.
You will assist in ensuring the efficient running of the purchase ledger module and associated processes including, but not limited to, invoice processing and matching, grants processing, and month- and year-end processing.
What We Are Looking For
* A high level of numerical and verbal reasoning
* Confident and articulate when communicating verbally or in writing with a range of people
* Confident in training and supervising team workload
* Take responsibility for your own work
* Experience in managing daily payment runs and month/year end processing
* Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify and resolve issues related to accounts payable processes
* Process Improvement: Ability to identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy
We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to ensure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working, and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why Work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England, we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire, and increases diversity. We do not use CV applications for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone, the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
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