Senior Accounts Payable Officer

Our client is a leading international investor across private equity, infrastructure, real assets and debt. They are seeking a permanent Senior Accounts Payable Officer to work as part of a team of 4, taking responsibility for the end-to-end AP process. The ideal candidate will have extensive previous experience working within the AP function of a financial services firm, and be keen to expand upon their experience within a fast-paced and dynamic business at the forefront of its field.

Description

• Manage the accounts payable process for corporate entities across the group.
• Work with stakeholders to implement best practise within accounts payable processes.
• Take responsibility for the ongoing monitoring of the accounts payable and fund accounts payable email inboxes, identifying invoices for processing and responding to supplier and staff queries.
• Review supplier and staff expense account details.
• Maintain and update process documentation, ensuring adherence to the set internal controls.
• Manage the automation of the accounts payable process, maximising efficiency. 
• Manage the fund accounts payable process.
• Work with stakeholders to implement best practise across accounts payable processes.
• Review weekly supplier and staff expenses, payment runs and ad-hoc payments.
• Review weekly cash projections to feed into the Treasury team's cash forecasting.
• Liaise with the Treasury team to confirm funding availability for the fund. 
• Ensure that weekly journals are prepared and posted in a timely manner.
• Conduct periodic reconciliations of relevant balance sheet accounts in order to ensure their accuracy.
• Provide documentation as required to auditors for group, corporate and SOX audits. 
• Develop management Information to measure efficiency and lead the improvement of the AP function.

Skills

• 5+ years of accounts payable experience working for a financial services institution.
• Educated to GSCE level or equivalent. 
• Ability to influence stakeholders to adopt new processes.
• Ability to proactively identify and implement process improvements.
• Previous experience dealing with high volumes of invoices and expenses across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, successfully prioritising tasks to meet deadlines, will be key.

To apply for this role, please use the Apply button, or alternatively, email your CV to Melanie Ravi at Walker Hamill quoting reference MA51168.

Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for 30 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in media, retail, pharma/biotech, technology, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe. For more information, please see the Walker Hamill website.