Top Ten Accountancy firm with offices in Crawley seek a Payments Manager to join the National Finance Office, which is a team of approximately 80 people, split over various locations. They are responsible for supporting the firm with all financial aspects of the day to day running, including supplier payments and expenses, payroll, commercial finance support and financial and statutory accounting to name a few.
The focus of this role is the management of the Payments team. Responsibilities of the role include:
- Manage, coach and develop the team, direct line management of payment supervisors and indirectly payment assistants
- Manage and prioritise the workload of the team, in line with the team SLA and report on KPIs
- Manage the overall processes and controls of the payments function, ensure work is carried out in line with procedures
- Continually develop and improve/streamline the processes within the team
- Monthly reporting to Finance management around payments, payment ledgers and the team
- Review of all payment runs and ad hoc payments before approval
- Build relationships with internal clients and external suppliers
- Project work as required
- Ensuring correct tax treatment is followed
- Keep line manager and wider management team up to date with progress on team tasks and objectives
- Ad hoc requests as required
Ideal candidates must have the following:
The candidate should be organised and methodical in their approach, with a good eye for detail who is enthusiastic and a team player.
The candidate should be adaptable to change, thorough, flexible, and resilient whilst remaining accurate and helpful whilst working under pressure.
Excellent communication skills and being comfortable with computer systems including Excel is important.
- Proficient in Excel (understanding of pivot tables, vlookup, sumif etc.)
- Excellent interpersonal skills – able to deal with people at all levels
- Self-motivated and able to show initiative
Ideally experience with SAP Concur – expense and/or invoice
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