Accounts Assistant

**Job Title: Accounts Assistant - AP x 2 roles**
**Role type: 12-month Fixed term contract**
**Location: Newcastle**

Our Business and Corporate Services functions provide a fundamental platform of unyielding support, enabling our firm to operate efficiently whilst working with our clients on ambitious projects that will set new industry standards.

**About this career opportunity**

You will work within a team of 15, reporting to the team leader/deputy team leader on daily work-related issues. Our Accounts Payable Clerks work closely with other staff within the team and other parts of Finance.

In this role, you will reconcile supplier statements, process and input supplier invoices and staff expense claim forms, issue BACS, deal with written, verbal and personal queries, and undertake ad hoc administrative duties. Ensuring that VAT and tax rules and regulations have been rigidly adhered to.

To gain exposure to all aspects of purchase ledger and associated statutory accounting.

To develop technical expertise in finance systems used within ARUP and assist with any future potential software development.

To check the validity of staff expense claims and supplier invoices, ensure that they are authorised per company policy, are compliant with tax and VAT regulations, and are categorised and coded correctly. Ensure staff and suppliers are paid within company policy guidelines via weekly BACS.

To reconcile supplier statements and to sort out any associated queries. To prepare and process journals as and when required. To file all processed information per the firm’s QA requirements and assist with other associated administrative tasks when necessary.

**Is This Role Right For You?**

We are looking for 2 Accounts Assistants (Accounts Payable) for 12-month Fixed-term contracts in our Newcastle office.
- Experience of working within a team environment.
- Excellent attention to detail and good organisation skills.
- Strong customer service focus and good communications skills
- Commitment to continuous improvement.

Desired
- Experience of working in Purchase Ledger.
- Transactional processing experience, good level of speed and accuracy.
- Knowledge and experience of using Concur, Oracle, JDE or other ERP Finance Systems.
- Awareness or experience of working in a Finance Shared Service Centre environment.

**Rewards and Benefits**

We offer a competitive salary at all levels, and one of the best benefits packages in our sector.

Core benefits include cover under the UK Healthcare Plan (private medical insurance), Life Assurance, Accident Insurance, and Income Protection (long term disability) cover. Core benefits are funded by us and made available to all permanent staff in order to support and safeguard your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing. You will also have access to Choice Benefits to help with your work/life balance and financial security.

In addition, all permanent employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme. Subject to scheme rules employees can receive two Profit Share payments per year, which are dependent on the firm’s financial performance.

**Different people, shared values.**

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

**What happens next?**

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