Accounts Payable Team Leader (P2P)

Accounts Payable Team Leader (P2P)

Accounts Payable Team Leader (P2P)

The location of the role is Salford Quays, Manchester.

The duration of the contract is 12 months.

The pay rate on offer is £225 - £325 per day.

Key accountabilities & responsibilities

• Responsible for all of the transactional processing Invoices (where they fail EDI or OCR for the Goods not for resale invoices), taking accountability that route cause is highlighted and proactively working with the wider P2P team and business stakeholders to fix at source
• Driving Trade Payable reconciliation’s including the GR/IR process for your business area
• A robust understanding of GRNI is a must in this role
• Maintaining strong, effective policies, procedure & oversight mechanisms are consistently applied across all of the centre
• Owning the Trade Payables balance sheet accounts including monthly reporting and analysis
• Challenge & Delivering core critical metrics and contribute to wider centre critical metrics, being aware of risk and opportunity to drive improvements.
• Supporting internal and external audits
• A member of the BSC wider leadership that collectively drive excellence in people and operations across the centre.
• Driving cross functional efficiencies through collaborative working with key business partner groups
• To manage the delivery of timely and accurate financial information, support the team to take action to resolve queries by dealing with appropriate business partners
• To develop a thorough understanding of the current processes and procedures within the team and ensure the relevant Management information is available for the operational area and key business partners
• To utilise financial and accounting understanding to propose and implement process and performance improvements

Key Tasks

• Managing the Help Desk Query System, including…
• Reporting on the volumes incoming to the box & being resolved daily
• Train the team to be self-sufficient at resolving complex queries
• Accurately record query category & route cause reasons
• Own the IMR process (EDI Failures) for GFR (Good For resale), for GNFR (Goods Not For Resale) review with the process management team
• Report on invoices received, failed, trends & route cause analysis
• Pro-Actively resolve source issues so that invoices can be re processed
• Highlight & work with the wider business on permanent solutions
• Own the Self Bill process within the Accounts Payable team, including resolution of failed Self Bill invoices (For GFR only).
• Complete & train the team to process supplier statement reconciliations (including reconciliation to GRNI)
• Ensure the team have been given & are attending regular statement reconciliation training
• Work with the team to resolve their reconciling differences to cleanse the ledger, GRNI & improve supplier relations
• Review & own the Creditors reconciliation and review on a periodic basis
• Build stakeholder relationships
• Hold regular meetings with key suppliers to ensure queries are being resolved & regular issues being addressed
• Take ownership of escalated supplier queries
• Highlight areas of concern to the relevant members of the wider finance team & business
• Work with the wider stakeholders to support a great customer/supplier experience
• Team management
• Build a high performing, engaged team who are well skilled in accounts payable processes
• Manage any performance development issues within the team
• Process Improvement
• Work with the business to reduce repeat work & automate manual tasks
• Support monthly with official controls, peer testing & internal/external audits