Accounts Payable Manager RBKC609311 London, England
Job description
Job Summary:
Salary range: £62,502 - £71,445 per annum (Pending pay award)
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 27th June 2023
Interview date: 6th July 2023
About Us:
Bringing People and Technologies Together to innovate supplier relations.
In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient.
As the Accounts Payable Manager, you’ll design and oversee payment processes, lead on system changes and manage supplier relationships that are vital to maintaining the standard of those services. Equally, you’ll bring an ethical customer focussed approach that ensures suppliers are paid on time and issues are successfully resolved promptly.
The Role:
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for you to join us at the very start of our journey as we implement a new ERP system (Oracle Fusion) and create a new in-house Accounts Payable team. You’ll be integral to the operational design and delivery of our entire Accounts Payable service.
This role will recruit and manage a team of six Accounts Payable Officers, overseeing daily activities and leading the team through month and year end. Working as part of an experienced Financial Systems team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring integrity of data, streamlining processes, championing best practice across the Council, and with our external suppliers.
The job role includes two phases; initially working on the project team to implement Oracle Fusion and then moving into the business-as-usual role of leading and managing the Accounts Payable team and end to end purchase ledger system. It’s a fast-paced challenging role in a new team so you’ll see this as the perfect opportunity to grow your experience and skills.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
A background in Accounts Payable is essential, and you must have a thorough knowledge of purchase ledger and supplier management regulations and processes. But what will help you stand out is a proactive attitude, collaborative approach and innovative ideas, as we establish the quality service we aim to provide to our communities.
You’ll be a confident communicator, in person and on paper, used to providing advice and training to various stakeholders. Quick-thinking and influential, you’ll also have proven you can accurately assess complex supplier situations and reach a positive resolution with tact and diplomacy.
You’ll have substantial experience of effectively planning, directing and reviewing the work of an Accounts Payable team with a strong focus on accuracy and timeliness.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: [email protected]
