Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

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SALARY: Starting from £28,708 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full-Time fixed-term contract ending 30/9/27

CLOSING DATE: 19/10/2025 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.

Are you committed to making things right for customers and driving positive outcomes? If so, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Senior Accounts Payable Specialist to join our dedicated team as a subject matter expert (SME) As the SME, you\’ll provide technical knowledge and expertise for the Accounts Payable team to ensure all invoice processing, payments and associated processes are carried out accurately, compliantly and on time. You\’ll also be responsible for developing process improvements to systems and the investigation of balances, reconciling items and working cross functionally with other departments to achieve great outcomes

What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensuring daily invoices and credits are processed with robust controls and paid in accordance with supplier contractual terms and in adherence to regulations, company policies and service level agreements (SLAs), including review and sign off of payment runs.
• Completing the daily processing and payment of VWG Consignments and associated brand balances are account managed and reconciled, with any reconciling differences reported on a weekly basis.
• Acting as a subject matter expert and technical specialist in supporting the team with key system requirements and problem solving relating to all aspects of Accounts Payable processes.
• Proactive supplier account management and completion of the top 10/20 supplier statement reconciliations ensuring queries are worked and resolved promptly, escalating appropriately to ensure no ageing of balances >60 days old to minimise exposure to the business.
• Auditing and payment of employee expense claims making sure claims are approved or rejected in adherence with the Company’s Travel and Expense policy and within the Controlling budget.
• Processing and review of weekly supplier and employee expenses payment runs, ensuring suppliers are paid to terms.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Able to demonstrate reliable all-round accounting / bookkeeping technical knowledge.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and Office applications.
• Experienced knowledge of SAP FI, including Sales ledger, Purchase Ledger, Banking modules and General Ledger management.
• A competent understanding of commercial, regulatory and compliance legislation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with both Finance and non-Finance staff at all levels.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to clearly define and investigate business process issues.
• Highly motivated, able to work flexibly under pressure, apply own initiative without supervision in order to meet strict deadlines.
• Experience of managing relationships and the ability to work collaboratively to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Creative thinker with the ability to produce original ideas to automate processes and deliver operational excellence.

What’s in it for you?

Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)

Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance

OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

• You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference through ensuring the delivery of quality outcomes for our customers, helping us to achieve our objectives.
• Our mission is straight forward; we want to be \’The Key to Mobility\’. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI\’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.