Senior Payroll Specialist

For our business, for clients, and for you

The Role & Key Responsibilities:

The Accounts Payable Supervisor will work closely with the management on the AP function for UK incorporated SMEs.

Competently carry out duties in a professional manner and in accordance with regulatory requirements, service levels and company standards so as to meet with business expectations, with the support of other members of the team, when required.

Role Objective and job specification

Apex Group is looking for an Accounts Payable Supervisor to join its Accounting Team.

Accountabilities and main responsibilities

• reviewing and verifying invoices and checking requests from relevant parties;
• ensuring invoices are coded to correct departments and purchase lines and uploaded into relevant accounting systems;

• were required, prepare and perform payment runs as per relevant parties instructions;
• post payment transactions to ledgers once complete and ensure banks are reconciled within the accounting systems;
• maintain vendor files
• communicate with relevant parties where appropriate and respond to inquiries;
• perform accounting and clerical tasks related to the efficient maintenance and processing of accounts payable transactions;
• able to reconcile accounting records to bank statements, reconcile supplier statements to ledger accounts and monitor accounts to ensure payments are upto date;
• reviewing, when required, the above stated output of the Accounts payable team;

Skills Required

• knowledge and basic understanding of general accounting ideas such as VAT;

• knowledge of relevant accounting software would be an advantage but not mandatory;

• be proficient in data entry, working to multiple tight deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail;
• fluency in English is required (both verbal and written).
• the ability of organising and prioritising;
• good communication skills with the ability of organising and prioritising;
• business risk aware;
• client service and results focused;
• ability to use their own initiative with minimal supervision;
• be a team player with willingness to assist others and a willingness to learn.

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding global business and to grow with the business;
• Training environment which is second to none;
• Access to the apprenticeship scheme to pursue a relevant professional qualification;
• Ability to apply technical knowledge to practical scenarios.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.