At a Glance
- Tasks: Process supplier invoices and manage approvals while ensuring financial accuracy.
- Company: Join Rathbones, a rewarding workplace focused on investing in your future.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, career progression, and a chance to share in our success.
- Other info: Exciting opportunity for growth in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Be part of a dynamic finance team and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in Accounts Payable preferred; strong communication and problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 32000 £ per year.
A rewarding place to work. At Rathbones, we invest in everyone's tomorrow that includes our people. We are always looking for future talent, and we can help you build a rewarding career with clear paths to progression and the opportunity to share in the success of our business.
About the Role
To ensure accurate, timely, and controlled processing of supplier invoices and payments, maintaining strong financial control, supporting month-end close, and safeguarding the organisation against fraud and error.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Process supplier invoices accurately and in-line with company policies.
- Ensure appropriate coding to correct legal entities, departments and GL accounts.
- Manage invoice approval workflows and follow up on outstanding approvals.
- Identify and escalate discrepancies, duplicates, or anomalies.
- Maintain relevant supplier master data, ensuring appropriate verification and controls (e.g. bank detail checks, segregation of duties).
- Respond to supplier/business queries in a proactive, timely and professional manner.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences through active liaison with suppliers.
- Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement and control policies.
- Maintain strong anti-fraud controls (e.g. independent callback procedures, segregation of duties).
- Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances.
About you
If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply:
- Significant prior experience in Accounts Payable, preferably within a complex, high-volume environment.
- Comfortable with Finance and data but not required to be qualified accountant.
- Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly through the most appropriate channel within the team and to key stakeholders.
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively, working to a high degree of autonomy.
- Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
- Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions to sort issues.
- An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain anomalies.
- Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
- Builds effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across the firm.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills - proactively seeks to share information.
- Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
Accounts Payable Assistant employer: Rathbones Group Plc
At Rathbones, we pride ourselves on being a rewarding employer that invests in the future of our people. Located in Leeds, our hybrid working model fosters a supportive and collaborative work culture, offering clear paths for career progression and opportunities to share in the success of our business. Join us as an Accounts Payable Assistant and benefit from our commitment to employee growth, strong financial controls, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
