Accounts Payable specialist - 12 month FTC in Guildford

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 ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead 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 by combining new technology with traditional financial processes to enhance our digital capabilities.

As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. 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, which grows from a thorough understanding of their business. You’ll be someone who is comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners.

Working in a team of five, this role supports the settlement run and bank and statement reconciliation activities within the Finance Services team. In this role, you will:

• Process domestic and foreign settlement runs.
• Reconcile payments to bank.
• Review supplier invoices to ensure accuracy and compliance with agreed terms.
• Ensure the financial management system is updated for all payments made accurately and timely.
• Support the P2P team with OCR invoice processing.
• Perform specific quality checks to avoid duplicate or incorrect payments.
• Process ad hoc/urgent payments through different online banking platforms.
• Maintain a central listing of direct debits and standing orders with supporting documentation.
• Monitor suppliers' debit balances report to track and recover any net supplier refunds.
• Review and investigate supplier statements with items aged over 30 days.
• Liaise with the business to record and upload credit card monthly statements in a timely manner.
• Deal with payment queries daily to ensure all communications are delivered within the agreed SLA.

You’ll be someone with:

• Good skills in Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Previous experience in Accounts Payable, reconciliation environment, and foreign payments (desirable).
• Demonstrable awareness and ability to learn HMRC requirements regarding VAT and payments within the UK banking system.
• Experience of working in professional services or a partnership (desirable but not essential).

We’re committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with 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.

At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state‑of‑the‑art collaboration spaces in our offices.

We’re looking forward to the future at BDO, helping entrepreneurial businesses to succeed and fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you.