Accounts Payable Specialist QC ( 12 Month FTC)

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships. You’ll be someone who enjoys team leadership and is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own workload, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively.

Working in a team of five, this role will take responsibility for ensuring that payments to suppliers are 100% quality checked to avoid the risk of duplicate or incorrect payments being released and that settlement runs are completed accurately and on time. You will also ensure all payments and supporting documentation are reviewed/validated and correctly recorded in Workday.

You’ll also:

• Work closely with the Payments Team Leader and P2P to report on payment exclusions.
• Review supplier invoices to ensure settlement runs are accurate and in line with terms agreed.
• Daily report on P2P stats, highlighting and investigating any variations.
• Ensure that the financial management system is updated for all payments made in an accurate and timely manner.
• Implement and review BDO’s aged credit policy and SLA’s.
• Protect and enhance the company’s reputation by ensuring invoices are coded, approved and paid in line with BDO payment terms.
• Improve BDO’s published days outstanding stats.
• Support the Payments and P2P teams with Service Now queries and emails.
• Support the P2P team with invoice input ensuring applicable VAT is correct.

You’ll be someone with:

• Outlook, Excel and Word skills.
• Previous experience in Accounts Payable, reconciliation environment and foreign payments (desirable).
• Demonstrable awareness and the ability to learn HMRC requirements in respect of VAT and payments within UK banking system.
• Numeracy and attention to detail skills with the ability to work to deadlines.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development. Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions. We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.