Supplier Management Officer

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more.

Join our Accounts Payable Team at L&Q: At L&Q, we know that strong supplier relationships and accurate financial operations are key to delivering great service. As a Supplier Management Officer in our Accounts Payable Team, reporting into Accounts Payable Team Leader alongside 7 other Supplier Management Officers, and a team of 10 Invoice Processing Clerks, you will play a vital role in ensuring our suppliers are paid accurately and on time, while maintaining compliance and supporting our wider finance operations.

Your impact in the role:

• Accurately set up new supplier accounts and process amendments in line with procedures, ensuring compliance and data integrity across systems.
• Lead on weekly BACS and cheque runs, including voiding out-of-date cheques and managing urgent payments when required.
• Apply payments to invoices efficiently to maintain smooth financial operations.
• Monitor and reconcile supplier statements to ensure accuracy and resolve discrepancies, supporting the wider team in maintaining financial control.
• Work closely with the Invoice Processing Clerks and Procurement team to support payment processes, enforce supplier lists, and uphold business policies.

What you will bring:

Essential Skills:

• Experience of working in a similar accounts payable function, dealing with BACS and Cheque payments, supplier statement reconciliation, verifying supplier details.
• Accounts payable experience from invoice processing to payments.
• Supplier statement reconciliations.
• Manual calculation on CIS deductions and CIS tax returns.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Strong organisation skills with experience working to deadlines and meeting targets.
• A good team player, as we are a large team.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications specifically MS Excel.

Desirable Skills:

• Purchase Order System Experience.
• Able, through experience, to apply a degree of judgement to deal with unfamiliar situations.
• Looking for ways to streamline AP processes.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email.

About L&Q: We are one of the UK's leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people's health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life. 250,000 people call our properties 'home', and we are proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England. People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger - and they are at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We are proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We are a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we have introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It is all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK's largest housing associations.