Accounts Payable Specialist (12 Month FTC)
Accounts Payable Specialist (12 Month FTC)
Apply locations: Gatwick
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Job requisition ID: R17114
Ideas | People | Trust
We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.
We work with companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.
We’ll broaden your horizons
Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work.
We’ll help you succeed
Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.
You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively.
Working in a team of five, this role supports the settlement run and bank and statement reconciliation activities within the Finance Services team. In this role, you will:
* Process domestic and foreign settlement runs.
* Reconcile payments to the bank.
* Review supplier invoices to ensure accuracy.
* Ensure the financial management system is updated for all payments made accurately and timely.
You’ll also:
* Process weekly domestic and foreign settlement runs for suppliers, employees, and partners.
* Support the P2P team with OCR invoice processing.
* Perform specific quality checks to avoid the risk of duplicate or incorrect payments being released.
* Process ad hoc/urgent payments through different online banking platforms within agreed timelines.
* Maintain a central listing of direct debits and standing orders with supporting documentation.
* Monitor suppliers' debit balances report to track and recover any net supplier refunds due.
* Review and investigate supplier statements with items aged over 30 days.
* Liaise with the business to ensure credit card monthly statements are recorded and uploaded timely.
* Deal with payment queries daily to ensure all communications are delivered within the agreed SLA.
You’ll be someone with:
* Good skills in Outlook, Excel, and Word.
* Previous experience in Accounts Payable, reconciliation environment, and foreign payments (desirable).
* Demonstrable awareness of HMRC requirements in respect of VAT and payments within the UK banking system.
* Experience of working in professional services or a partnership (desirable but not essential).
You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.
At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.
We’re in it together
Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values, and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career.
Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.
We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.
We’re looking forward to the future
At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.
Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK, thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies achieve their ambitions.
We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths.
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