About the role

What’s in it for you:

• A salary of £20,092 - £22,254

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays

• The Christmas period off with no effect on your holiday allowance

• An excellent pension scheme

• A flexible working life

Overview:

Due to continuous success, a Durham-based organisation are looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Assistant to join their finance team on an initial 9-month fixed term contract.

The Role:

This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, this role offers hybrid working with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. Reporting to the Accounts Payable Assistant Manager, this is a business facing function supporting the organisation as a whole and at all levels with respect to accounts payable matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Focus on checking stakeholder requirements to ensure the delivery of excellence with the frontline stakeholder experience e.g. paying suppliers one time.

• Respond to service users answering and recording standard queries e.g. when is payment likely to occur

• Solve day-to-day routine problems e.g. query management and source background information within the role.

• Record data and information accurately and provide reports as required to team members and more experienced staff.

• Operate an Accounts Payable enquiry service and process requests finding solutions or escalating queries where necessary.

• Liaise with internal and external suppliers, contractors and professional specialists to pass on information and ensure the end-to-end process.

• Apply professional and regulatory procedures and processes and use of systems e.g. ensure terms of payment are met.

• Setting up new banking

• Handling secondary approval

Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Attention to detail

• Proven IT skills, including use of Microsoft Office 365.

• Five GCSE’s at least Grade C or level four (or equivalent) including English Language and Mathematics (or equivalent experience).

• Post-16 qualification or equivalent experience.

• Relevant experience of processing accounts payable transactions in a busy office environment within a large organisation.

• Demonstrable ability to provide advice and guidance to a range of customers and colleagues.

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