Job Information
News UK Accounts Payable Supervisor in Peterborough, United Kingdom
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Location:
Peterborough
Department:
Finance
Salary Details:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
Not Specified
Job Description
Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. Weare based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive,productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.
The Team: You will be part of the Accounts Payable team. We are responsible for the payment of allinvoices for News UK and Wireless paying for all goods and services. This is a very busy rolerequiring someone who is personable, used to working in a fast paced environment and pridesthemselves on attention to detail and accuracy at all times. The team are enthusiastic, motivated anda collaborative group of people, sociable with a strong team spirit.
Day to day you will:
Day to day team management, including dealing with team queries
Set performance objectives and review monthly
Weekly catch ups
Team development
Work closely with the Tax, Compliance and Corporate reporting teams to ensure HMRC, NewsCorp, Audit and Sox compliance
Month end reporting including dashboards
Management of high risk accounts and Direct Debits
Reconciliation of suspense accounts and proactive discussions with the business
Review of journals and manual payment requests
Management of IR35 Supplier accounts
Check and oversee vendor change reports
Review of payment proposals and collation of urgent adhoc payments
Responsible for continuous improvement of Accounts Payable processes.
Full involvement in any Process and System initiatives identified related to Accounts Payable Procedures
What we are looking for from you:
Proven management skills
Excellent working knowledge of SAP
Excellent understanding of Accounts Payable practises and procedures
Strong excel skills
Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
Efficient, hardworking and organised with the ability to multitask
Able to evidence excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage workload to strict deadlines
Multiskilled to cover Contributions & Expenses Supervisor
We use SAP, VIM & OCR previous experience of using these systems would be useful but not essential
Key Behaviours
Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard
A good team player capable of flexibility
Proactive and curious
Good communication skills
Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships , free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
25 days holiday , plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
