Accounts Payable Supervisor

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Role Overview 

We are currently recruiting for an Accounts Payable Team Supervisor to join our passionate and driven team based at our Ipswich office.   

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop the existing accounts payable team, including Accounts Payable Assistants and Senior Accounts Payable Assistants.
• Drive team performance and delivery of objectives and embed a culture of compliance and internal control.
• Oversee daily, weekly, and month-end for the accounts payable functions including the month-end close process, supplier statement reconciliations, invoice processing and supplier payments
• Ensure the process of supplier statement reconciliation is full proactive and clearly managed the end-to-end process from reconciliation to resolution of any queries or missing documents so that the account is fully in line with expectations
• Ensure the statement reconciliation process, is full proactive and clearly managed the end-to-end process from reconciliation to resolution of any queries or missing documents so that the account is fully in line with expectations.
• Manage the SLAs within the team (agreed both internally and externally)
• Build and maintain relationships with major stakeholders, such as key suppliers, the procurement team and the divisional finance lead.
• Work alongside the AP Team Leader and finance leads to ensure that the function is providing the best available data to support the business operations.
• Ensuring correct training is provided to staff within accounts payable teams.

Requirements:

• Experience improving internal control and process frameworks
• Effective communication across a range of stakeholders
• Experience managing a ‘high-volume’ transactional Accounts Payable function
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with line management, including managing temporary resource
• Excellent organisation skills and the ability to prioritise and manage own workload and the workload of the team.
• Have a positive and focused attitude when dealing with all colleagues
• Experience using Access Dimensions, Concept, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and OCR technology is desirable.
• Experience with CIS tax is desirable
• AAT level 3 or comparative finance qualification is desirable