Date: 15 March 2026 – 14 Feb 2027 (11 months)
Location: Hybrid / Reading (Tues & Wed in office)
Accounts Payable Manager
Role purpose
To manage the end-to-end Accounts Payable function. Completion of month end tasks related to Accounts Payable.
Key responsibilities
Sole ownership of the Accounts Payable function including the following day to day activities:
- Reviewing invoices to ensure they are accurate and legally compliant
- Loading invoices on ApprovalMax
- Ensuring invoices are approved in a timely manner by department heads via the ApprovalMax system
- Posting invoices & expenses into Xero
- Preparing payment runs for sign off by the Head of Finance
- Loading payment runs on the bank and getting them approved by directors
- Posting and allocating payments in Xero
- Sending remittance advice to suppliers in a timely manner
- Fielding supplier queries via phone and email, providing a high level of customer service
- Reconciling supplier accounts back to statements and actioning discrepancies
- Maintaining a clean and tidy purchase ledger
- Creating new supplier accounts and maintaining the integrity of our supplier master data
- Management of the shared accounts helpdesk ensuring we meet our 48-hour response time SLA
- It is expected from time to time that you will be required to support in the completion of AR tasks, the team inbox and any ad hoc requests
Dext:
- Checking and approving employee expenses and credit card claims in Dext
- Processing expense and credit card claims in Xero once approved in Dext
- Assisting with Dext queries from employees
Month-end
- Posting and reconciliation of prepayments and accruals including credit card accruals
- Maintaining shared accruals schedule with comments
- Monthly AP analysis of costs against prior month and budget
Systems experience (desired but not essential)
- Xero
- ApprovalMax
- Excel
- Dext expense system
Competencies (knowledge/skills/experience)
- A minimum of 6 years Accounts Payable experience
- A focus on providing great customer service and communication to internal & external stakeholders
- A desire to take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion
- Ability to prioritise your workload and be organised
- A deadline driven mentality
- Attention to detail
Education & qualifications
Minimum: A Levels
I never feel like a number on a spreadsheet. And I love being able to work flexibly. I start my day at 8am. I’m a morning person. That really suits me.
Claire Bull
Product Owner
The company is the right size that there’s plenty of interesting stuff going on, but small enough that you can take ownership of things.
Max Bowser
Developer
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