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Accounts Payable Assistant

4 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Card Factory Full time

Job Introduction
Great news Our Finance team is looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join our team. If you have excellent attention to detail and a passion for accuracy, we would love to hear from you.

The role involves processing supplier invoices, staff expenses and company credit cards, maintaining accurate ledgers and generating payment proposals across the UK and Republic of Ireland. As an Accounts Payable Assistant, you will work with a close-knit peer group and receive support from Supervisors and the Head of Transactions. This role is essential to ensure that supplier invoices for goods and services across the UK and ROI businesses are processed and paid accurately.

Main Responsibilities
- Processing supplier invoices as part of a 3-way match for Goods for Resale, including using import tools for high volume suppliers
- Processing supplier invoices for approval by the cardfactory stakeholder
- Processing expense claims and company credit cards
- Scanning of documents as part of the processing of transactions
- Responsibility for the reconciliation of supplier accounts to statements & housekeeping of ledgers
- Supporting with new supplier set ups and changes to supplier master data
- Preparation of payment proposals to ensure accurate payment of suppliers to terms
- Monitoring of the centralised team mailbox
- Resolution of queries from both stakeholders and suppliers
- Ad hoc tasks and projects needed as part of the overall deliver to the business of accounts payable
- Active participation in team meetings
- External suppliers are the main stakeholder
- Colleagues across the business look to Accounts Payable to pay accurately and to time, to avoid suppliers contacting them with issues
- Finance Colleagues are the main internal stakeholder, including the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team for cash flow forecasts
- There is opportunity to influence ways of working and process improvements within legal parameters / guidelines
- Strong attention to detail and diligence to accuracy
- Be self-driven and can work autonomously
- Able to show empathy and compassion towards stakeholder
- Agility to adapt to the immediate needs of the business
- Keen to learn new skills and develop personally

About The Company
Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial well-being.

**Benefits**
- 25% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym memberships and mobile phone contracts
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme - access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Family leave

No agencies, please.


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