Senior Accounts Payable Clerk

This is a Full Time Job

Our London Finance team is looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Accounts Payable Clerk to join their growing team. As the Senior Accounts Payable Clerk, you will report into the Accounts Payable Manager and play a crucial role in supporting the finance activities for multiple CAA businesses. This role will work very closely with the other members of the Accounts Payable team and wider finance team. The role has a wide range of responsibilities and will require someone who can work accurately and to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities to include but not limited to:
• Provide required support to ensure smooth transition to the new ERP system – SAP
• Data clean-up within current accounting system ahead of data migration
• Involvement in data migration process
• Involvement in User acceptance testing
• Reconciliations between systems
• Support the AP team in maintaining the Accounts Payable mailboxes for all 3 entities.
• Creation of new suppliers on the financial system – Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Checking and confirmation of new vendor details.
• Answering supplier related calls.
• Process and review supplier invoices for payment as part of scheduled payment runs.
• Ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of transaction processing into the financial system.
• Prepare weekly payment lists, processing payments in the bank and sharing with the Financial Controllers for review and approval.
• Manage and maintain filing of AP invoices in SharePoint/OneDrive.
• Reviewing and processing manual expenses, where applicable.
• Reviewing expenses loaded into Concur for multiple businesses.
• Reviewing credit card statement to ensure all expenses submitted – following up with employees to ensure all credit card expenses are submitted.
• Prepare AP payment journals in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for approval.
• Assist in preparation of calculations, analyses and reports as requested by the AP Manager or Financial Controller.
• Working closely with AP colleagues to cover off all AP related tasks.
• Support the business in a collaborative manner on expenses, credit cards and supplier payments.
• Assist in the annual statutory audits by preparing documentation and supporting schedules.
• Assist the AP Manager or Financial Controller in ad-hoc projects.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS
• Must have solid previous experience in Accounts Payable.
• Must have a high level of attention to detail and great organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential as the role involves dealing with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of building strong relationships with colleagues and suppliers will be key.
• Ability to be a team player with a conscientious and motivated attitude.
• Knowledge of Excel and strong numerical skills.
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP useful, but training will be given.
• Some experience with foreign currencies would be useful.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.