accounts payable Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Contrat: Full time Fixed term 6 months contract (35 hours per week)
Salary £24,300-£30,600 per annum
Location: Cambridge,Hybrid
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Finance Accounts Payable Team. As a AP Senior Specialist you will play a key role in overseeing company purchase ledgers, payments to vendors and working with colleagues globally.
You will also take part in shaping finance processes for our newly combined Cambridge University Press & Assessment organization and Single ERP system.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
The Role
- Working as a member of the Accounts Payable Team within the Finance Shared Service Centre, the primary purpose of the job is to ensure the prompt and accurate processing of payables documents and to make timely and accurate payments to payees in compliance with agreed payment terms.
- Assisting with all vendor payables ledgers totalling Approx. 10,000 invoices per month. Ensuring continuation of supply from vendors by paying to terms and assisting in resolving disputes and queries timely.
- Produces APOI reports and deals with priority vendors, ensure on time payments for all due open items.
- The role supports the AP Training for AP team, contingent workers and buyers
- The role supports UAT testing, system improvements and implementations.
- Reconcile Vendor statements and deals with queries.
- Reconcile Aged Creditor Reports
- Assist with raising pay run proposals
- Deal with emails and general administration
About you
- Experience is required of the Global Accounts Payable process working with multi ledgers and large volumes of transactions, dealing with complex tax code structures and banking legislation.
- This is a role with expertise required in the knowledge of legal & regulatory requirements for payment of different currencies abroad with the understanding of the implications and requirements for each country. This also requires a high level of awareness of fraud.
The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that's linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help give you the resources and training you'll need to be bold and take ownership of what you do.
Benefits
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class rewards package that will help you to live well at work, and outside of it. You'll find a wide range of benefits and policies, from family-friendly incentives, to a generous pension, to discounts on everyday shopping. Our benefits promote financial security, personal wellbeing and a reduced environmental impact. See a full list of benefits on our careers site.
- Group personal pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Green travel schemes
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
The closing date for applications is 23 July and interviews are scheduled to take place from 24 July.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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