Accounts Payable Assistant

3 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Hiscox Full time

job description:
**Accounts Payable Assistant**
**9mth Fixed Term Contract (Maternity leave cover)**
**Colchester with hybrid working - Ave of 2 days in the office.**

Working within a busy accounts payable team you'll be supported and trained to deal with a range of administrative duties within the team and you'll liaise with the business and suppliers to resolve queries and payments.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Daily triage, processing and system entry of invoices in the Oracle payables system. This will include manual creation of invoices or bulk imports via the spreadsheet option.
- Manage supplier and employee Oracle account registrations and profile change requests such as updating bank details and closing inactive accounts.
- Liaise with suppliers and employees to answer queries on invoices and personal expenses.
- Analyse payables invoice transactional information and run subledger accounting reports.
- Payment runs - Run or assist weekly payment runs by checking invoices are logged, coded and authorised correctly.
- Statement checking and supplier account reconciliations.
- Assist with month end processes and reconciliations.

person specification:

- Experience in a finance function like Accounts Payable, Purchase Ledger or Credit Control.
- Related Degree, A-Level or AAT pass / studier is very desirable
- Knowledge of Excel
- Oracle knowledge desirable
- Good numerical skills
- Good communication skills
- Organised with strong attention to detail

**Diversity and Working Patterns**
**At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

We have also learned that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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