Accounts Payable Assistant

Who We Are

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.

The Role

The Club is seeking an Accounts Payable Assistant. The role has exposure to a variety of responsibilities to assist the Team to carry out all functions in Accounts Payable.

As the Accounts Payable Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments across the business. The position requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to work effectively both independently and within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing and processing payment runs and manual payments
• Organising, registering, matching purchase ledger invoices in a timely manner
• Dealing with Purchase Order queries
• Seeking approval from purchasers and managers for invoice variances
• Ensuring invoice payment due dates adhere to the payment terms
• Verifying invoice bank details with suppliers
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining existing accounts
• Keeping a track of the Accounts Payable mailbox
• Processing all utility bills
• Processing travel invoices for Team and staff travel

What you will bring

Skills and experience

• Proven experience within a similar role or equivalent.
• Good communicator with positive attitude, flexible, helpful and enthusiastic
• Knowledge of Navision system or similar system use.
• Purchase Order System knowledge
• Excellent time management, attention to detail and numeracy skills.
• Able to identify and resolve problems promptly

Person Specification

• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
• Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility
• Proven ability to cope with high‑pressure situations such as the need to deliver accurate information to a global audience in a live environment
• Highly organised and ability to prioritise and manage own workload

The Tottenham Hotspur Way

Is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.

Our values that bind us

• DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE – Impossible made possible when we think outside the box
• DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME – Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world
• DO IT OUR WAY – Win the right way, never at all costs.

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.