Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable
- Processing and coding invoices (c. 200-250 per month and growing), obtaining appropriate Management authorisations
- Record and log invoices received
- Processing employee expenses and credit cards
- Set up invoices and expenses for payment
- Prepare and process cheques and bank payments
- Reconciliation of payments
- Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date
- Resolve invoice discrepancies
- Correspond with suppliers and respond to enquiries
- Creating new supplier accounts and maintaining details
Intercompany
- Updating intercompany journals, invoices and statements in a regular basis
- Reconciliation of intercompany statements within monthend deadlines
- Work in close co-ordination with Paris, US, Asia and other entities to smoothly process and reconcile all intercompany transactions
Bank
- Updating bank statements with relevant information and checking balances against Financial System
- Creating and maintaining supplier bank details
- Posting all supplier, intercompany and ad hoc bank transactions
- Bank recs
General
- Updating prepayments schedules
- Maintaining fixed assets schedules and posting depreciation
- Ad hoc tasks and projects as required
- Updating exchange rates on daily basis
- Improve on existing processes
Interacting with:
- Other members of Finance
- Accountants in other the company offices
- Information Technology
- Front Office Sales Staff
- Suppliers
Knowledge required (Finance and systems):
- 5 years experience managing accounts payable, within a small team or autonomously.
- Understanding of the complete accounts payable process is essential.
- Proficient in data entry.
- Knowledge of intercompany processes and reconciliations would be an advantage.
- Intermediate Excel skills, including pivot tables.
- Knowledge of SAGE an advantage
- Other general accounting knowledge would be an advantage
Qualities/skills required:
- Organising and prioritising
- Meticulous and methodical
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills
- Follows issues through to resolution
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Responsive
- Proactive
- Flexible
Social Stream