Accounts Payable Advisor

Position: Accounts Payable Advisor
Hourly Rate: £12.29 - £15.09 per hour (37 hours p/week)
Location: Coventry
Start Date: ASAP

Our client is currently seeking an Accounts Payable Advisor for an initial 6-month contract. The main purpose of this role is to support the processing of supplier invoices, this involves processing invoices (received both electronically and in the post) against purchase orders and goods receipts. You will also review/resolve queries, carrying out statement reconciliation and liaising with requistioner’s across the business for both procurement and payment issues.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring payment reaches the supplier within the agreed payment terms.   
• Opening post and scanning invoices into our OCR and document retrieval system.
• Processing invoice (both electronic and paper) against Purchase Orders and GRNs.
• Ad hoc tasks as and when necessary, within the same team as well as other team
• Resolving problems relating to orders and workflows.
• Responding to email queries.
• Liaising with staff at all levels within the business as well as with external suppliers building good working relationships. 
• Communicating best practice to suppliers and our internal users to prevent issues from occurring.
• Taking individual responsibility for on-going assigned tasks.
• Identifying root causes for non-payment of the invoices.

Requirements:

• The ability to identify problems and propose solutions.
• The ability to be self-motivated and resilient.
• Good personal organisational skills to manage several tasks concurrently.
• High levels of attention to detail.
• The ability to complete tasks to deadlines.
• Good IT awareness - Excel & Word
• SAP experience - (Desirable)
• Awareness of taxation principles and CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) - (Desirable)

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will receive an initial telephone interview. Selected candidates will undergo a formal interview process.