Accounts Payable

Job description
Accounts Payable Vacancy - based in Milton Keynes MK5

Job Purpose:

You will be responsible for accurately tracking what’s owed to suppliers, ensuring payments are properly approved and processing payments. Accurate information on accounts payable is essential to producing an accurate balance sheet.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Manage the full-cycle Purchase Ledger process, including inputting invoices, credit notes, and debit notes.
• Set up and amend accounts on the Purchase Ledger.
• Reconcile supplier balances with statements and match invoices to purchase orders and delivery notes.
• Handle high-volume invoice processing and ensure accurate entry into the system.
• Verify company invoices for accuracy and required backup documentation.
• Raise and resolve invoice queries with suppliers.
• Manage company expenses, including fuel card mileage queries.
• Prepare and manage bi-monthly payment runs for approval.
• Process payments via BACS, cheques, or other methods as required.
• Ensure credit is received for outstanding memos and issue stop-payments when necessary.
• Undertake month-end reconciliations and prepare quarterly payment forecasts.
• Liaise with suppliers on queries and discrepancies.
• Maintain accounting ledgers and verify account transactions.
• Monitor discount opportunities and schedule payments.
• Support the Accounts Team with additional commercial, accounting, and administrative tasks.

Person Specification:
• The ideal candidate will have accounts payable experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, confident telephone manner, self-assured, self-motivated and able to persuade and influence others.
• Ability to work on your own initiative, plan and organise own workload
• Ability to build and maintain good business relationships with third parties and internal stakeholders

Benefits:
• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
• Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution of up to 10.5%
• Life Assurance (x4 salary)
• Subsidised private medical insurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
• 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
• 2 days volunteer leave
• Equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
• Flexible working

If you are interested, please get in touch ASAP or if this is not the exact role you are searching for, please do not hesitate to contact me directly to discuss other opportunities.

Disclaimer - Oasis Business Personnel strives to be an equal opportunities employer and is committed to treating all applicants alike. Oasis Business Personnel does not treat any individual on grounds of sex, age, colour, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic or national origin, religion, ****** orientation, disability or membership or non-membership of a trade union, less favourably than others. All vacancies advertised are open to all ages