Accounts Payable Supervisor

3 weeks ago

High Wycombe, United Kingdom Hovis Full time

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

**The Role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Payable Supervisor to join the dynamic finance team at Hovis HQ in High Wycombe.

Reporting to the Transactions Manager (AP & AR), you will lead a team of 2 AP associates and will be responsible for a broad range of duties across Accounts Payable and Purchase to Pay, including management of the AP RPA - while helping to maintain a strong internal control environment. Your accountabilities will include effective and efficient transactional activities such as; assisting the AP associates in invoice matching processes, Payment processing, GL reconciliations, Verification of Vendor Master Data, Control practices and query resolution. You will strive to deliver and improve the P2P processes, maintaining KPI’s and providing support to the business.

There will be regular opportunities to be involved in project work, with significant exposure to the Procurement and wider Finance teams and other managers across the business.

You will play a key part in the cash management processes for the business, working with Treasury and other areas of finance to ensure that cash payments are well forecasted and managed - a critical role of finance in a SME Private Equity backed FMCG business.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Accounts Payable Supervisor to join a unique business, which has an established brand, private equity backing and an entrepreneurial mindset. The Finance team is an integral and trusted part of the Hovis business and we will be looking for a collaborative, positive and energetic individual to join our friendly and supportive team.

**Key Accountabilities**

**People Leadership**
- Supervising a team of 2 Accounts Payable Administrators
- Support Finance Transactions Manager to engage the team through objective setting and regular 1-2-1’s

**Transactional Processing**
- Deliver to KPI’s and SLA’s
- Process BACS/CHAPS payments accurately and on time including Payroll OTV & Expenses.
- Produce 13 week forecast
- Verification of vendor master data and New Vendor
- Maintain accurate records and history
- Perform statement reconciliations as required
- Perform General Ledger reconciliations to financial timescales
- Perform a range of AP Controls duties.
- Non PO invoices processing and maintenance of the FI Table

**Reporting and Analysis**
- Procurement Spend reports
- Capital Creditors and GRNI
- Changes to Vendor report
- Changes to doc report
- AP Sub ledger
- Month End reconciliation
- Supporting Internal and External regular audits

**Customer Service**
- Be the first point of contact for payment query resolution
- Prompt response to enquiries
- Embedding a customer service culture
- Refer any unrelated/unresolved to right resource in a timely manner
- Build strong relationships / Stakeholder Management
- Support and share knowledge with colleagues
- Provide general operational support within the team to enhance financial controls
- Technical inbox management
- PO forwarding and control
- SAP FAL’s management

**Technical**
- Understand entire end to end processes and owners for best practice
- Ensure system functionality is fully utilised
- Adhere to Data Protection regulations and practices

**Control and Compliance**
- Operate within the business controls framework, following relevant process documents
- Encourage compliance with internal and external customers to support process improvement within the AP Team
- Work with business areas to improve data quality and suggest process improvements
- Implement and follow through any changes to agreed standards and time scales

**Experience**:

- Experience in leading Accounts Payable teams
- Management of P2P related controls and operational activities.
- Strong working knowledge of Excel
- Process improvements experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload
- Balance Sheet Reconciliation experience
- Creation and maintenance of dashboards/reports
- SAP experience

**Why work for us and our benefits**:
At Hovis, we understand the importa

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