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Accounts Payable Officer | Finance

A new opportunity to work in our Finance team, where you will be responsible for accounts payable daily, weekly, and monthly tasks and activities, and assisting in cost reporting and month end processes.

Job Reference: FI025-24
Department: Finance
Reporting to: Accounts Payable Manager 
Location: London 
Work pattern: Hybrid 

Job description

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This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office (City of London location) and 2 days working from home.

Role Purpose:

Responsible for accounts payable daily, weekly, and monthly tasks and activities, and assisting in cost reporting and month end processes.

Responsibilities:

  • Efficient administration and processing of the Purchase Ledger including processing and posting invoices, clearing, and reconciling aged creditors, and posting ad-hoc journals
  • Administration and processing of staff expenses, including liaising with staff as necessary in relation to expense and mileage claims
  • Weekly payment runs
  • Weekly expense analysis reporting
  • Monthly Management Information reporting
  • Assisting with month end journals such as accruals and prepayments
  • Ad-hoc project work, including increasing automation of purchase ledger processing
  • Management of Accounts payable inbox and dealing with queries
  • Assisting internal and external audits with their requests
  • Assisting with PAYE Settlement Agreement report and Monthly payment reporting

 

Skills and Experience sought:

  • Previous experience in Accounts Payable role
  • Competent IT skills (Excel, Word …etc)
  • Accurate and efficient administration of the Purchase Ledger in timely manner.
  • Highly organised and methodical with an ability to see tasks through to completion.
  • Ability to prioritise a number of different tasks at once
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrable alignment with UTB’s core values of ‘Teamwork, Service, Integrity Responsibility and Tenacity’
  • Good team player, willingness to help their team to achieve its goals

About UTB

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UTB is a dynamic and expanding specialist bank that provides solutions to our customers and brokers, which help them achieve their ambitions. Recognised as being one of the most dependable and well-respected Specialist Banks in the UK, we were delighted to see our balance sheet exceed the £2bn mark in 2022.

Exceptional customer service and the ability to provide rewarding deposits accounts and flexible lending solutions have helped us to develop productive and enduring relationships with our customers. We understand that their success is our success and that the quality of our people and teams, is key to delivering special outcomes for them.

We also understand that the performance of our people is directly linked to the culture in which they work. There is a strong sense of community at UTB and as well as promoting a clear set of internal values, and providing a wealth of facilities for training, personal development, and team building, we run a busy and varied calendar of engagement and social activity. Typical recent examples include: Pizza Lunch Days and Coffee Catch-ups; London Marathon and Sahara Challenge Sponsorships; Success Sharing and Value Awards; and Awesome Autumn social events ranging from Theatre Trips, Cocktail Mixology, and Cookery Classes, to Go-karting, Mini Golf and Clay pigeon shooting.

Employee benefits

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  • competitive salary and bonus package.
  • matched pension contributions up to 7%
  • 26 days annual leave plus two wellbeing days and opportunity to purchase additional holiday
  • flexible and hybrid working
  • private medical insurance via Vitality
  • life, income protection and critical illness insurance
  • enhanced family leave pay
  • extensive learning and personal development opportunities
  • electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
  • season ticket loan
  • wellbeing support – discounted gym membership, employee assistance programme, 24/7 private GP access for staff and their immediate family (online), 1:1 key life stage coaching

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