Accounts Payable and Expenses Associate - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Job Title: Accounts Payable & Expenses Associate - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract role

Location: Birmingham or Leeds

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancy businesses, we've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

KPMG’s Group Corporate Services (GCS) is the single provider of internal business services, advice and expertise to KPMG. GCS is connected and future-focused, acting with a Group mindset. Recognising the differing needs of our stakeholders and national identities, we unite around a common purpose to Grow, Run and Protect our Firm. This role sits within the Finance Operations department of the Group Finance and Commercial domain. Finance Operations is an innovative, agile and collaborative function that provides services to support our client-facing colleagues in the delivery of their work.

Why join KPMG as an Accounts Payable and Expenses Associate

The Accounts Payable & Expenses Team are responsible for the processing and payment of supplier spend, and business expenses for all UK colleagues. The role involves using various systems such as our SAP ERP, SAP Concur Expense module, Coupa, and AMEX online to deliver our services. You will be part of a collaborative team providing finance support and expertise to KPMG’s UK colleagues and our supplier base. The role offers a wide range of opportunities to learn and build our processes in a supportive team and would suit anyone with an interest in continuous improvement and problem solving.

What will you be doing?

To support the business across a range of areas, including:

• Management of Coupa invoice work queues, ensure they are cleared within SLAs and all escalations are dealt with in a professional manner.
• Reviewing submitted expenses against KPMG policy, challenging and escalating where necessary.
• Reconcile and take remedial action on specific Accounts Payable general ledgers, for example, unclaimed VAT, personal expenses, suspense GLs, etc.
• Process urgent and manual payments through the online banking system and ensure strict authorisation processes are followed.
• Administering KPMG's corporate card scheme including processing new applicants, leavers, dealing with accrued transactions, delinquencies, credit balances, and routinely doing account reconciliations against KPMG's ledgers.
• Being an administrator for SAP Concur, KPMG's expense management system. Performing system admin such as interface monitoring and dealing with failed postings, as well as wider involvement in system enhancements.
• Oversee the centralised business travel account (BTA) and ensure travel costs are reconciled and paid monthly.
• Take responsibility for payment runs ensuring all processes are adhered to.
• Prepare manual journal uploads to post adjustments, transfers, etc. in SAP.
• Be an expert on finance related policies & processes, and effectively deal with queries from across the business by support ticket, email, phone, face to face, or other internal communication methods.
• Be a strong advocate for process improvement and continuous individual and team-wide development.

What will you need to do it?

• Experience working in Accounts Payable or a related area of Finance Operations
• Pro-active attitude
• Well organised and able to prioritise and deal with a varied workload
• High attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good technology literacy
• Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills
• Resilient and able to work with multiple and demanding stakeholders
• Problem solving abilities
• Highly engaged, active, and positive participant in the team and department
• Team player with ability to work independently

To discuss this or wider Central Services roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.