Accounts Payable Assistant

Are you an experienced, organised and motivated Accounts Payable Assistant seeking an opportunity to work within a busy accounts team?

Are you seeking a varied role where you can work closely with internal and external stakeholders and contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and systems?

Your Role

In this role you will process a high volume of invoices, expense claims and manual payments, ensuring they are progressed in a timely and accurate way to meet our payment deadlines. You will reconcile supplier statements and deal with or escalate queries promptly, working with suppliers and internal customers, dealing with issues relating to invoices and managing and resolving invoice queries. As an Accounts Payable Assistant you will create, maintain and update supplier accounts and will be the first line of response to any queries from customers and suppliers. As well as the day to day processing you will support the continuous improvement of the function, providing suggestions on how processes could be more efficient.

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

Our Transactions team at TfGM cover a variety of roles. Accounts Payable ensure Invoices are processed correctly and paid in a timely manner, set up new vendors and we are the first point of contact with the business regarding PO and Invoice queries. This is an exciting role that will cover all areas of the business and will allow the successful applicant to see all the different areas of TfGM and engage with key stakeholders that are working together to keep Greater Manchester moving and growing.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will have experience of working within an accounts payable team. This should include processing of invoices on a financial ERP system, such as SAP or Oracle. You will need excellent attention to detail. The role will require effective verbal communication skills in particular to be able to converse at all levels within TfGM. Good working knowledge of computerised systems and software is also key, in particular excel. You will be able to work on your own initiative and within a team.

What we can offer you

A permanent role with a salary of £28,069 – £29,881 per annum depending on skills and experience.

You will work as part of our supportive finance team and will receive a full induction into the role. The team work in a hybrid way, in the office 2 days a week with Tuesdays being our anchor day and another day of your choice.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What’s next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK – if in doubt please visit the following link Employers’ right to work checklist – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.