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V&A Museum of Childhood

Accounts Payable Officer - Maternity Cover

London
£25.6k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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Salary £25,615.86 pro rata

Location Cromwell Road, London

This is a Fixed Term Contract, Part Time vacancy that will close in 19 days at 23:59 BST.

The Role

We are looking for an organised and proactive Accounts Payable Officer to join the V&A’s Finance Operations team on a part-time, 9-month fixed-term maternity cover contract.

You will support the delivery of an efficient and accurate Accounts Payable service across the V&A Museum and V&A Enterprises. Key responsibilities include processing supplier invoices, employee and volunteer expenses, supporting weekly payment runs, maintaining supplier records, completing reconciliations and responding to supplier and internal queries.

You will have previous Accounts Payable experience, strong attention to detail and good Excel and systems skills. You will be confident communicating with suppliers and colleagues and committed to delivering excellent customer service.

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative Finance Operations team and contribute to the effective delivery of financial services across the V&A.

The V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

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Our Mission
To be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

  • To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
  • Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
  • Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
  • To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
  • Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
  • Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

The Benefits

  • Generous pension scheme
  • 29 days plus bank holidays
  • Flexible working
  • Tickets to V&A exhibitions
  • Subsidised staff canteen
  • 25% discount in V&A shops
  • Give as you earn scheme
  • Bicycle loan
  • Interest-free season ticket
  • Interest-free rental deposit loan
  • Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
  • Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Staff diversity networks

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ED&I at The V&A

At The V&A, We Are Committed To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion (EDI) For All And Strive To Go Above And Beyond Public Duty Placed Upon Us By The Equality Act 2010. As Such, We Are Delighted To Share That We Are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A Makes The Following Commitments To All Applications

  • The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
  • Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
  • Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
  • Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.

In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.

Job Descriptions are currently uploaded as PDF's, if for any reason you require the documents in Word Format, please email careers@vam.ac.uk with your request.

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Skills

Accounts Payable
Invoice Processing
Expense Management
Payment Runs
Supplier Record Maintenance
Reconciliations
Excel
Customer Service
Communication Skills
Attention To Detail

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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