Accounts Payable Officer

Job Description Location: Home working, with a requirement to attend our main hub space in Leeds as and when required for team working and meetings. \n\n Working Hours:  37 Hours per week Monday - Friday \n\n \n\n ** Contract: 12 month fixed term or secondment \n\n \n\n Our team & opportunity \n\n The Accounts Payable Officer provides comprehensive Accounts Payable services for the Trust and its subsidiaries. This role makes payment of supplier invoices, customer refunds, staff & volunteer expenses, and manages the travel booking and purchase card function on behalf of the Trust.  Without the effective operation of these processes the Trust would be unable to function, and there would be a negative impact on suppliers. \n\n About the role \n\n \n\t To comply with all Accounts Payable processes in an efficient, effective manner and in accordance with agreed SLAs. This involves ensuring compliance to quality management system (QMS) and control measures to ensure correct outputs are achieved while maintaining strong relationships with internal and external customers. Contributing to any improvements and changes as may be necessary. \n \n\n \n\t Meet cyclical financial deadlines. This involves awareness of month end procedures to ensure all costs are posted to ledgers at month end. \n \n\n \n\t Act as point of expertise and best practice, assisting colleagues in following Canal & River Trust’s processes and procedures, providing training as required. The job holder must demonstrate excellent communication skills in order to convey the importance of our procedures. They are also expected to exercise a level of discretion in deciding how to apply the procedures in different circumstances. \n \n\n \n\t Collate, analyse and present financial and business  reports. In order to provide managers with up to date and relevant information to managers to make business decisions. Ensuring that financial transaction data prepared for senior management authorisation is correct to minimise delays in authorisation and payment. \n \n\n \n\t Resolve queries from customers & suppliers. This involves communicating with other parties to  ensure payments to suppliers are not unnecessarily delayed or outside contractual agreements that exist. \n \n\n \n\t Use Canal & River Trust internal systems primarily SAP and Medius. Job holder must have skills to input accurate data to assist in information management and reporting ability. \n \n\n \n\t Regular user acceptance testing on financial transactions across various platforms. \n \n\n \n\t Provide absence cover for team manager: For example in relation to reporting, completing and authorising payments, ensuring all tasks completed by team, carry out SAP testing and authorise changes to go into PRD, organise and chair team meeting as appropriate. \n \n\n \n\t Displaying the Trust values and behaviours at all times. \n \n\n \n\t Ensuring that diversity and inclusion are integrated into all aspects of Trust life and promoting inclusion by challenging behaviour, practices, actions, or decisions that are counter to the objectives of the Trust’s policies and values. \n \n\n About you \n\n Technical: \n\n \n\t Experience of Accounts Payable. \n\t Experience supporting colleague relations or payroll processes. \n\t Experience in SAP skills particularly within the Purchasing (MM). \n\t Confident in the use of word processing and spreadsheet software. \n\t Experience of operating to a certified quality management system. \n \n\n General: \n\n Communication skills that allow you to inform, help and advise customers clearly and professionally. \n\t Comply with Canal & River Trust Health & Safety policy and defined standards, report incidents, accidents and near misses. \n\t Ability to understand and implement organisational policies. \n\t Consider your own and others behaviour. \n\t To be aware of your own responsibilities regarding safeguarding and to support our commitment to providing safe environments and working practises that promote and protect the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk at all times. \n \n\n What we offer \n\n In addition to your annual base salary of £25,000 (p.a.) ,  a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits we are also open to flexible working arrangements. \n\n \n\t Competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, where we will double your contribution to a maximum of 10%. \n\t 25 days paid holiday (plus paid Bank Holidays), increasing to 30 days after 5 years. \n\t Home working status with ‘hub’ facilities available should you need the flexibility to work outside of home. \n\t Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues, e.g. health, financial, well-being and domestic matters. \n\t Access to a range of employee benefits including store discounts, boating holiday discounts and holiday purchase scheme. \n\t 2 days paid volunteering leave per annum, allowing you to volunteer for a local community project etc. \n\t Free fishing facilities across our canal network. \n