Accounts Payable Assistant (3491)

Description
About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage, and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification, and fraud prevention solutions.

With over 30 years’ of experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.

Why you should be@GBG

(with the 95% of our team members that recommend us as a great place to work)

We make the world a safer place
We trust each other and win together
We are local experts in a global business
We want you to be yourself
We grow when you grow

Finance Team

Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision-making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes, and controls. To support this goal we strive to have the best highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination.

The Role

This role reports to the Accounts Payable Manager and is part of the UK finance operations team.

What you will do

• Process outgoing Vendor payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
• Perform day-to-day financial transactions, including bank postings, allocating payments, and processing and matching invoices and credit notes.
• Review and reconcile the Accounts Payable ledger to ensure all balances and payments are accounted for and correctly posted.
• Verify and investigate any discrepancies by reconciling vendor accounts and monthly vendor statements.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure invoices are approved, and Purchase Orders are correctly receipted in the system.
• Manage AP inbox and respond to External or Internal Queries.
• Provide support to Users of the systems such as Web3 & Concur.
• Assisting with audit queries
• Maintaining Vendor Records
• Carry out necessary checks required for onboarding new Vendors.
• Ad-hoc projects and duties, as guided by your line manager.

Requirements
What we’re looking for

Skills

• AAT qualification or equivalent is advantageous.
• Previous Accounts Payable or finance experience is beneficial.
• Good communication skills
• Basic skills using Microsoft Excel
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is advantageous.
• Good computer literacy skills
• Excellent organisation and planning skills plus a high level of efficiency, happy to be given project work and see it through to completion with minimal assistance.
• A highly motivated individual, that brings energy and confidence, that is target driven and able to work as part of a team

Behaviours

• Integrity – You should be reliable, honest, and trustworthy. We are looking for an individual who is committed to achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and supporting the aims and objectives of the legal department
• Interpersonal Skills – We work very collaboratively as a team so are looking for an individual who enjoys working with others and is good at building positive relationships with colleagues and customers
• Persuasiveness – You must be a good communicator and have the ability to offer effective, commercial, and persuasive advice on complex issues. As negotiating with suppliers and customers is essential to this role you should be able to explain your position in an articulate, constructive, and confident manner
• Planning and Organising – We work in a fast-paced environment so are looking for someone who possesses strong time management and organisational skills and can handle a number of matters simultaneously. You should be able to plan your time effectively to ensure work can be completed within agreed timescales
• Energy and Drive –You should be self-motivated, enthusiastic, and keen to learn. We love to work with individuals who show passion and pride in their work and are willing totake initiative to deliver a high-quality service

Benefits

We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!

Diversity & Inclusivity:

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, parental status or disability. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.