Expending Accountancy firm based in Crawley seek an Accounts Payable Assistant to join the National Finance team, are a team of approximately eighty people, split over various locations, but with large hubs in Gatwick and Preston. We are responsible for ensuring the financial health of the organisation. We ensure checks and controls are robust and budgeting, planning, and reporting aspects of the organisation are accurate agile and insightful to drive decision-making, growth strategies and continuous improvement.We are looking for a Accounts Payable Assistant who will provide support to the Payables team within our National Finance office in Gatwick, ensuring the function meets reporting deadlines, looking after our supplier and people expense transactions and other ad hoc tasks.

Core duties will include:

• Checking expense claims and processing these using our expenses system (SAP Concur)
• Processing invoices and ensuring that invoices are coded with accuracy to the correct cost centres
• Preparing and inputting manual Standard and CHAPS payments to the banking platform
• Preparing and inputting foreign payments and transfers to the banking platform
• Understanding VAT implications on supplier and expense payments.

Ideal candidates must have the following:

• Ideally, experience of SAP Concur - expense and/or invoice
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confident dealing with people at different levels
• Driven, with a passion to to develop oneself
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable working with a variety of computer systems
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proficient in Excel (understands pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s, SUMIF etc)