Accounts Payable Lead - Vets Finance - 39 hours
Pets at Home Limited, Handforth, Cheshire East
Accounts Payable Lead - Vets Finance - 39 hours
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Pets at Home Limited, Handforth, Cheshire East
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 10 Jan | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 8f5a2531c6f24c248f73e3c8eaf9b2dd
Full Job Description
- Work with our suppliers to ensure our Accounts Payable processes provide a strong service experience
- Develop partnerships between Practices, Operations, Commercial and Accounts payable team
- Sound knowledge of processes to support service delivery with focus on simplification for Practice Owners
- Develop and implement improvements through the Accounts Payable processes and systems
- Train and coach Suppliers, Colleagues and Partners on purchasing best practices
- Stay in touch with industry new ways of working to improve efficiency and provide value to our partners
- Works as part of Accounts Payable to help lead, coach and mentor the team
- Develops simple solutions to improve finance operations
- Build robust KPIs to monitor performance and drive incremental improvements in Service Level Expectations
- Creation and maintenance of process and controls documentation for Accounts Payable
- Prepares standard reports including system control reports
- Uses Excel to process and analyse data e.g. use of basic graphs, tables, pivot tables drop down lists and look up formulas
- Apply internal processes and controls to ensure integrity and compliance
- Assesses existing controls for areas of improvement and embeds change
As Accounts Payable Lead you'll be responsible for all procure to pay processes and associated controls, as well as managing a team of 6. To be successful in this role you must have a minimum of 3 years' experience working within Accounts Payable, and a minimum of 2 years years' experience managing a team. As the team is based out of our Head Office in Handforth, and remotely, it would be beneficial if you've had previous experience managing a remote team., Extensive Accounts Payable experience - Experience of team management
- Detailed knowledge and demonstrable experience of a finance ERP system, preferably SAP S4 HANA.
- Stakeholder management - All areas of the business that interact with the purchasing process
- Experience of Accounts Payable processes and day to day line management
Pets just see people. They aren't biased and they don't discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don't perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.