Senior Accounts Payable Assistant

**Who We Are**

We are a collection of members' clubs, restaurants, hotels, workspaces and cinemas, catering to those in the film, media, fashion and creative industries. The company has unique ventures throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Asia, with new openings planned globally. Soho House is a space for its diverse membership and teams to connect, grow, have fun and make an impact.

**The Role**

The Accounts Payable Team in Soho House Retail is an important function that requires people with vision, the ability to deliver to deadline, embrace change, love great customer service, and enjoy working for a dynamic expanding business in the Retail industry. The Team is responsible for payment of all overheads, expenses and stock incurred by the global Soho House Retail team, managing supplier accounts and resolving queries promptly and accurately and efficiently. Soho House Retail comprises of Soho Home and Cowshed and this role works on both.

The Accounts Payable Supervisor will be responsible for managing the AP team and overseeing the team paying suppliers within agreed timeframes, resolving queries in a timely manner, maintaining good supplier relationships as well as clean ledgers, with individual supplier accounts clean and up to date. The AP Supervisor is also responsible for managing our key accounts to ensure agreed terms are met, dealing with more complex queries raised by the AP team and acting as a point of contact between all departments and the AP team.

**Main Duties**
- Act as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
- Act as key AP contact for the rollout of Business Central
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure best practice within the AP team
- Owning the intercompany Sales Ledger/Purchase Ledger reconciliations
- Ensuring the POP (GRNI) Report is carefully managed, overseeing the team posting to manage the size of the report
- Regular statement reconciliations of all suppliers across all entities
- Investigating and resolution of supplier queries
- Maintaining relationships with Key Suppliers resolving all queries, keeping accounts up to date and ensuring we remain within agreed terms
- Assisting with debit balances, requesting refunds where appropriate
- Supporting any process and system changes that are implemented for the improvement of the AP Process and deliverables
- Invoice processing
- Raising Inter-company journals
- Managing a generic mailbox
- Pulling together supplier payment runs
- Any other ad hoc duties as requested by the line manager

**What We Are Looking For**
- Experience in processing high volumes of invoices
- Experience in stock heavy business
- Experience with proforma/deposit payments
- Excellent level of competency in statement reconciliations
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating an ability to adapt to change.
- Takes initiative while retaining collaborative approach to work.
- Intermediate Excel Skills
- Experience of Sage
- Ideally experience of Business Central
- Ideally experience of Continia document scanning (or similar)

**Benefits**

Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks. Whether you're seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to grow your career.
- Weekly Pay
- Soho Friends Membership (Every House Membership applicable after 1 year' service)
- Free lunch at Store X Café in 180 Strand Mondays & Fridays
- 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
- Staff Room Rate; Any Bedroom, Any House, $100 a night
- Private Health and Dental Care
- Life Assurance
- Birthday Day Off
- Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
- Dog Policy
- Season Ticket Loan
- Christmas Office Closure
- In conjunction with Soho Impact, take 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice.
- Free Counselling Sessions
- Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
- Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
- Exclusive access to our benefits platform with hundreds of discounts on shopping, gym memberships, holidays, insurance and much more
- Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to.

**Opportunities for all