My client is a leading Investment management firm looking to hire an experience Purchase Ledger Manager/Accounts Payable.

Role responsibilities:

• Managing a purchase ledger team of 3, carrying out regular 121s, objective setting and performance reviews, driving a high performance culture within our newly created purchase ledger team.
• Overseeing and managing the purchase team on a day to day basis whilst also being hands on, inputting purchase ledger invoices, reconciling invoices to supplier statements, processing weekly supplier and staff expenses payment runs (BACS & CHAPS).
• Must have excellent attention to detail when coding invoices, ensuring all costs are therefore captured in the appropriate divisional P&L's
• The Purchase Ledger Manager is also responsible for ensuring VAT coding is captured appropriately to reflect the business partial recoverability for input VAT.
• Responsible for performing month end duties, adhering to a strict monthly close routine so as to support the wider Finance teams month end close process, this includes the reconciliation of all month end purchase ledger balances and the creation of aged creditor reports.
• Liaising with external auditors, providing supporting audit evidence as requested by auditors during the annual audit process.
• Support of the Finance System team, the Purchase Ledger Manager will become a super user of the business purchase order, purchase ledger and employee expenses system: Proactis. Ensuring the purchase ledger team optimises all the functionality available in their finance systems so as to build an efficient and scalable centralised purchase ledger function.
• Reporting to the Finance Director, you will be working closely with the wider Finance Team, to ensure invoice coding structures are adhered to and daily, weekly and monthly routines fit into the wider Finance teams monthly timetable of activities.

Candidate requirements:

• Must be Immediately available
• Ideally have managed 1-3 people previously

URGENT role - please send CV's through to priya@kennedypearce.com