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Your new company
Our client is a key infrastructure within the global financial system that enables customers to hedge exposure, manage inventory costs, and align procurement strategies with market dynamics. They blend legacy practices with modern clearing and settlement mechanisms, offering liquidity and transparency in a sector often marked by volatility. Its benchmarks underpin financing arrangements, trade flows, and investment decisions.

Your new role
The client is seeking an experienced AP Officer to join the finance team for a 6-month period, with the potential to become permanent depending on performance. Key responsibilities include:

• Perform the accounts payable process for the company end-to-end and ensure it runs smoothly
• Monitor payables email inboxes to ensure invoices and supplier queries are dealt with promptly and appropriately.
• Liaise with suppliers / internal colleagues to resolve queries
• Input all invoices and match to purchase orders on a daily basis.
• Process and check invoices and employee expenses in accordance with Company guidelines.
• Create and process weekly multi-currency supplier and expenses payment runs, including BACS / CHAPS / international / direct debit
• Ensure invoices are processed accurately and paid on a timely basis
• Assist with upload of cash transactions from the bank to the finance system and match to accounting entries on a daily basis.
• Assist with bank reconciliations for multicurrency bank accounts on a monthly basis to provide accurate information in the management accounts.
• Reconcile credit card statements
• Set up and validation of new suppliers in the finance system (in accordance with onboarding procedures)
• Reconciliation of supplier statements to the finance system in a timely manner.
• Assist in month-end close procedures, including reconciliations of sub-ledger reports to the general ledger and the investigation and clearance of any breaks therein.
• Monitor accruals and other ad hoc reporting for the monthly management accounts
• Help maintain, monitor and review KPIs/SLAs. Liaise within the AP team and across business divisions to ensure all targets are met. Report upon KPIs at AP / Finance team meetings
• Understand, document and maintain internal controls and standard operating procedures
• Assist with development / improvement of AP systems and procedures
• Provide training and guidance on purchasing processes to non-finance staff
• Other ad hoc tasks as required

What you'll need to succeed

• Strong financial services experience is essential for this role.
• Part-qualified accountant.
• Strong AP background, with experience with purchase orders and multi-currency.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical mindset.
• Oracle Financials experience would be advantageous.

What you'll get in return

• Hybrid working
• Competitive day rate and potential for permanent employment upon successful completion of a contract.
• Opportunity to work for an established, global company

What you need to do now
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