Accounts Payable Specialist - North West London, Apparel & Fashion -Paying £35,000 - £45,000 - 4/5 Days in Office 
 
We are recruiting a AP Specialist for a fantastic high growth consumer brand. 
 
We are looking to hire a AP Specialist on a permanent basis who will take responsibility for creating and sending invoices to clients and researching/resolving any disputed invoices.
 
This role will be reporting into the Finance Manager/CFO and you will be responsible for the Accounts Payable function across the business.

Please note you must have previous experience within a similar AP position and in the retail or consumer sector.
 
Suitable candidates will be great communicators as you will be directly contacting clients regarding outstanding invoices and focus on administration and be looked upon for accuracy when maintaining transaction logs and closing/balances of payments.  
 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Manage and supervise the accounts payable department day-to-day deliverables to ensure the team efficiently processing all transactions in a timely and accurate manner
• Oversee the maintenance of customer and employee records
• Be responsible for routine payment runs for suppliers and employees
• Review and approve payable invoices and expenses for processing and final sign off
• Reconcile bank statements across the group, to ensure all banking records are completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Revalue foreign currency supplier accounts; month end allocation journals, balance sheet and intercompany reconciliations
• Line manage the accounts payable team
• Manage a good relationship with any internal and external stakeholders, inc. vendors. 
• To identify and implement efficiencies in the current procedures and continuous improvement in control process
• All other duties appropriate to the role, incl. assist in system migration, new procedures and systems role out etc.

Requirements: 

• At least 3+Years previous experience with Retail/Consumer Sector.
• 3+ years AP experience with leading a team a must.
• Analytical thinking working under pressure at month end and coping with tight deadlines is a must.
• This role suits a problem solver!
• Strong organisational skills 
• A strong positive attitude with the ability to multi task.
• Must be detail orientated with ability to think strategically and analytically.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships quickly. 
• Ability to problem solve in an occasionally unstructured environment.
• Must be Immediately available or short notice period. 

If this sounds like you please do get in touch here or via my email bertie.cox@tracerecruit.com.

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