Payable Clerk - 9 Month FTC London, England
Job description
Job Description
Payables Clerk: We have an exciting new opportunity to become part of the Payables Team at NewsUK working with the Accounts Payable, Contributions and Expenses team. This is a varied, busy role giving you the opportunity to get involved in lots of processes and different areas of the business including lineage and picture payments, invoice processing and auditing employee expense claims.
The Team: You will be part of the Payables team working alongside 12 colleagues. The team is vibrant, exciting and very busy with a mix of both ages and experience. The team processes payments for Suppliers providing goods and services, for Contributors and Talent who provide lineage and pictures for our publications including our Radio and TV broadcasting stations along with auditing all expense claims in Concur to ensure they adhere to News UK’s expense policy.
Your Role: You will be involved in the day to day processing across the Payables Team. Due to the increase in the department's workload you will need to be proactive, able to multitask and provide support across several functions. Once fully trained there will be further opportunity to become involved in the new automated invoice management system VIM, the Expenses function on the Concur system and Finance approving New Contributor records within our onboarding system, Risk Centre.
Day to day you will:
Daily lineage allocation for all publications
Input of Contributor Expenses
Audit and review daily vendor change reports
Input miscellaneous payment requests in a timely manner so they are paid in the weekly payment runs ensuring accuracy at all times
Input of the internal ZL & ZJ journals ensuring accuracy at all times
Validation in OCR of PO and Non PO Invoices
Opening daily post
Checking of any final demands and reminders received from suppliers
Statement reconciliations
Auditing employee expense claims in Concur, checking VAT reclaim and ensuring they adhere to the expenses policy
Reviewing the onboarding of all new Contributors and Talent in Risk Centre, checking required back up is accurate and meets audit requirements
Other ad hoc Payable duties including reports and monitoring shared mailboxes
What we’re looking for from you: Proactive, focused, with a can-do attitude, enthusiasm, a good team player with the ability to work to weekly deadlines but also manage your own workload effectively. Strong communications skills and positive work ethics.
Good excel skills and the ability to learn new systems
Accurate and a good attention to detail
Experience of working in a fast paced environment
We use SAP, VIM, OCR and Concur, previous experience of using these systems would be useful but not essential
Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we will launch TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
