Accounts Payable Specialist

🧭 Navigating the position: Accounts Payable Specialist We are recruiting for an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist. This role will suit a candidate who is looking for a challenging and varied role, at the heart of a dynamic group that is going through significant growth and change. This role will be based in central London on a hybrid approach.

🚢 Your Voyage Ahead:

Principal accountabilities

• To manage supplier ledgers – maintaining the sub ledger accounts, managing the authorisation of invoices, assuring prompt settlement of supplier invoices, allocating payments, and resolving queries both internal and external.
• To manage and develop the Group Accounts Payable team and policies and maintain consistent, accurate and good quality processes.

Role duties

• Ensure processing of payments as and when needed, establishing a dependable relationship with both internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Regularly review and recommend process improvements to continuously strive for excellence in the accounts payable process and service to suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Consolidate and integrate existing group AP activities where feasible and as required in order to establish high quality, efficient processes.
• Maintain and develop procedures and policies that promote timely payments for suppliers while maintaining a high level of supplier satisfaction.
• Prepare regular, periodic, and ad-hoc reporting as and when required and determined by the policies governing the accounts payable process.
• Prepare and maintain weekly cash flow forecasting for supplier payments – by supplier for 8 weeks ahead, record and compare to prior week and provide details of major movements.
• Manage the accounts payable sub-ledgers to ensure accurate records are maintained.
• Manage the AP email inboxes and workflows - responding promptly to queries.
• Resolve any queries relating to invoices, credit notes and payments in a timely and professional manner.
• In addition to the duties listed, the position holder is required to perform other duties as may arise in connection with the successful operation of the Company

Authority

• To operate within the parameters of the Group Delegation of Authority Matrix and Group Finance policies.

🚢 Recommended to bring on board:

• Min. 2 years working experience in similar role.
• Experience of multiple AP ledgers.
• Excellent skills in Excel.
• Knowledge of ERP systems
• Drive and ability to work independently.
• Possesses good organisation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Confidence and the ability to influence individuals for approvals and suppliers requesting payment.

🛳️ Navigating Life with OTG: Unveil a Treasure Trove of Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Matching pension contribution up to 5%
• BUPA cash plan (to fund out of pocket medical costs) and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Life assurance
• Further Benefits:
  • We enable internal mobility by posting all vacancies on our internal job board and encourage all Oceaneers to make their next move within OneOcean
  • We offer a referral fee to Oceaneers who refer new Oceaneers that subsequently join OneOcean
  • We provide a culture of continuous development and growth