Accounts Payable Associate

Position Summary

Why Join our Team?

Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd Head Office is based in Chertsey.

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Assistant to join our existing team in Chertsey on a 6 month contract basis.

The role sits within the Finance Accounts Payable & Travel and Entertainment team, within the finance department.

Reporting directly to the Accounts Payable Manager, you will be part of a supportive and collaborative team working to ensure the prompt and correct processing of the invoices.

Role and Responsibilities

Your Key Responsibilities:
- Investigate complex AP queries escalated by the shared service centre and business highlighting issues to the AP Team Lead where necessary.- Assist in managing the reduction of on hold service requests with the shared service centre, overcoming blockages to the processing of invoices.- Communicating with suppliers to investigate and resolve payment queries and provide payment remittances when requested.- Raising and input of manual invoices and credit notes for multiple department items and vendor refunds.- Raising payment requests for urgent invoice payments.- Manage and update the rent and rates tracker for Samsung Electronics sites to ensure all invoices to suppliers are paid on time.- Delivery of local processes not outsourced to the SSC- Process invoices and credit notes directly in SAP where required.-
- Banking of cheques received-
- GMP Invoice processing-
- Manual payments to vendors-
- Prepare paperwork for manual payments
- Manage process for approval of manual payments
- Updating manual payments report for SEUK CFO for review.-
- Input AP/Expenses bank postings and liaise with the treasury team to resolve these on daily.- Provide support on Month end close and related reporting.- Preparing documentation for internal and external auditors.- Preparing monthly invoice query journal for accruals.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Ability to build relationships across the business and a remote team to support with a variety of business issues, including payment and invoice coding.- Ability to meet deadlines.- Strong customer service focus.- SAP experience.- Experience in a similar Accounts Payable role with a core set of skills in the areas outlined above.- Ability to work independently.- Experience of working with different teams and suppliers to source information.- Strong attention to detail.- Experience in coding invoices and accurate data entry.- Ability to understand and adhere to set processes and work to key finance deadlines.- Proactive and keen to learn and ask questions.

What does success look like?

To be successful, you must have prior experience of working with and have worked with the SAP system previously.

Organised, hard working, good inter-personal skills as dealing with vendors and internal stakeholders

There are monthly targets all based around the vendor accounts and invoice portal

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include- Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week- Pension contribution- Three volunteering days each year- Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday- Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products- Access to a discount shopping portal- Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.