Eu-clerk Ap

**Job Title**: Accounts Payable Clerk **Company**: Univar Europe Limited

**Department**: Finance Shared Service Centre **Reports to**: Accounts Payable Manager

**Salary**: Neg **Based**: Bradford U.K.

**Job Summary** - Purpose of Role

The role performs activities required to ensure a timely and accurate processing of Expenses (incl. T&E), Invoices, and Payments. The role also supports the Accounts Payable Manager in resolving issues and errors.

**Responsibilities & Duties**

Process Invoices
- 1st & 2nd line issue handling
- Match invoices to PO and validate
- Review invoices, modify and cancel invoices when appropriate
- Identify unusual or overdue items and select the correct procedure to verify or adjust discrepancy or errors
- Validate invoices and complete with relevant accounting information
- Manage exceptions and solve issues
- Propose payment lists based on vendor ageing balances
- 1st signature on automatic SAP payment run (TBD)

Process FA invoices
- FA invoice receiving and processing

Process & Pay T&E expenses
- Monitor travel & expense processing in SAP
- Perform periodic audit of expense reports
- Correct disputable items from periodic audit
- Respond to specific questions from employees and clarify situations when necessary
- Resolve potential discrepancies if approval problem

**Qualifications & Skills**

2 to 3 years in an accounting function.

Good knowledge and understanding of AP/T&E best practices, procedures, controls

Experience in sending/receiving/scanning/archiving best practices, systems, procedures

Ability to read and interpret invoices in the local entity languages

Able to work independently and in a team

Strong language skills of the entities to be covered (Core languages: UK, FR, ES, IT, DE, SE and PT; Nice to have languages: HU, PT, FI, CZ, Russian)

Experience in an AP role within an international environment

Experience of, and competence in using, integrated ERP software, particularly SAP

Competent Microsoft Office user (Word; PowerPoint; Excel; Outlook; Visio)

**Success Measures**

of correct invoices processed / FTE

of correct expense reports processed / FTE

Delivery of reporting/reconciliation’s according to deadlines

of payment days for Expense reports and timeliness of payments within agreed due dates

Delivery of reporting/reconciliation’s according to deadlines

**Key Stakeholders**

Accounts Payable Manager

FSS Accounts Payable Manager

Local entities/regions

Behavioural Competencies

Serious about safety

We remain vigilant and proactive to prevent safety hazards, and we will always place safety before profit.

We do what we say

We make commitments we can keep, trusting others to do the same, and holding ourselves accountable while being bold, direct, and transparent.

Where people matter

We care about others and their contributions and we will ensure diversity and inclusion. We will do this while growing ourselves to grow our business.

Valuable to others

We will demonstrate this value by solving problems with our customers and suppliers, and by improving the communities where we live and work.

Together we win

We will play to win and get results while working to common goals and using common processes to improve continuously.