Accounts Payable Manager

Woking, Surrey

£38-40k plus 25 days holiday + BH, Healthcare, Dental, eye care, pension,10% bonus and many discounts to cinema, gourmet card, car/phone insurance and much more.

Through our responsive web sites and app, we sell around the world. We are growing our business rapidly both in our home markets and internationally and we offer nothing less than a 5 star service.

Areas of Responsibility

• Ensure team are following the Accounts Payable Procedures within their daily tasks – updating them where necessary for compliance.
• To continually develop and improve the processes within Accounts Payable
• Implement an automated PO and Remittance processes.
• Ensure payment run is processed by the team on a weekly basis in line with timetable.
• Manage monthly closing of financial records and posting of month end information, ensuring accuracy of financial statements.
• Keep SUN Accounts & Purchase Invoice Management System updated.
• Act as point of escalation and support for the AP Team.
• Carry out one to one meetings with each team member on a monthly basis to review progress on objectives, current workloads and overall performance.
• Review with offsite finance manager AP team probations and annual performance of each team member.
• Review and manage KPI's on monthly/quarterly basis – identifying any areas for improvement and working on implementing change to improve these.
• Work towards achieving set objectives.
• Other duties as required by the Finance Controller or CFO.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 6 years working within Accounts Payable & previous experience of team management.
• Ability to lead a team and motivate others to exceed expectations.
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to review processes and implement positive change.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work autonomously.
• Experience of SUN Accounts preferred but not essential.