Accounts Payable Officer/Junior Management Accountant
Salary: £60,000 - £63,500
Ashley Kate Finance is partnering with a leading Bank in central London who is in search of a skilled Accounts Payable Officer/Junior Management Accountant. You will be part of a small Finance team and have exposure to various aspects of the company through the support of this dual role. The purpose of this role is to support the Finance Team in processing, tracking, and recording payments accurately, efficiently, and timely on the accounts payable side, while also impacting the management reporting area. The role provides accounts payable support to other branches.
Our client relies on SAP to produce their Accounts Payable (AP) and Management Reporting. Recent and extensive SAP experience is therefore a prerequisite, with a preference for this to include SAP Fiori and SAP Concur experience. You will be a crucial part of the team and must be able to take responsibility for communicating with co-workers and senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Accounts Payable Officer:
1. Sound understanding of reporting functionality within SAP
2. Assist with end user queries on the use of the SAP system (act as competence centre for other branches)
3. Review, verify, code, match, enter, upload, and pay invoices & employee expense claims
4. Track expenses and process expense reports using SAP Concur
5. Prepare and process electronic transfers and payments
6. Post journals into the general ledger
7. Resolve invoice discrepancies and issues with vendors and internal stakeholders
8. Produce monthly reports
9. Provide supporting documentation for audits
10. Maintain accurate historical records and confidentiality of organisational information
11. Accounts Receivable management
12. Reconciling supplier statements and answering any payment/purchase ledger queries
13. Bank account reconciliation
Management Accounting:
1. Responsibility for month-end close process
2. Review of expenses, such as Compensation, IT & other related accruals/prepayments
3. Maintenance of Fixed Asset register
4. Consolidation of London Expenditure (Profit Centre Reporting)
5. Analysis/Commentary of Monthly/Yearly expense movements
6. Balance Sheet and P&L substantiation and reviews with Department Heads
7. VAT return preparation
8. Ad-hoc support
About you:
1. Previous Banking experience
2. Financial Analysis skills
3. Systems knowledge to include SAP (preferably SAP FIORI)
4. Unit 4 CODA Financials (optional)
5. Microsoft Office (intermediate to advanced) to include Excel Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP
6. Excellent time management skills and detail orientation
7. Ability to work independently
Other Information:
Your working hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm (with some flexibility). This is a hybrid role, but you must be able to work from the Central London Office 2-3 days a week. Please note that while in training/induction, you will be in the office full-time to give you the best start to your career.
Interested? Please get in touch!
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