Accounts Payable Clerk
OVO GroupAbout the role
Role OVO-View
Team: Accounts Payable Team
Salary banding: £25086 - £29000
Experience: Intermediate
Working pattern: Full-Time
Reporting to: Max Baker - Accounts Payable & Systems Improvement Manager
Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
This role in 3 words: Problem Solving, Stakeholder management, Automation
Top 3 qualities for this role: Tenacity, Patience, Attention to detail
Where you’ll work:
At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.
All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.
Everyone belongs at OVO
At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.
Teamworking for the planet
Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:
We need an efficiently functioning Finance team to achieve Plan Zero. This role is all about getting the basics right for a health functioning Finance team and also feeds into the wider Procure to Pay (P2P) function.
This role in a nutshell:
The role of an AP Clerk is to be the first point of contact when a query is raised to the Finance team or an automated process fails. This means responding within set timeframes to ensure a high standard of service to our stakeholders. A considerable amount of knowledge is required to perform this role effectively in terms of OVO’s systems and company structure, AP Automation, PO policy, Suppliers and industry specific terms and processes. They will use this knowledge to educate OVO’s stakeholders in terms of invoice submission and to investigate instances where our automated processes have fallen down to find a lasting resolution. The AP Clerk will also be expected to escalate urgent issues and take a proactive approach to recurring issues to ultimately ensure a high level of service and efficiency from the AP team as a whole.
Your key outcomes will be:
Accounts Payable
- Working the shared Finance inboxes (JIRA), responding to supplier queries and escalating urgent queries
- Ensuring supplier data is kept up to date and fixing gaps and assisting with the set up of new suppliers
- Completing regular supplier statement reconciliations for key suppliers
- Investigate aging and outstanding items
- Maximising the use and efficiency of AP automation - educating suppliers and buyers, consolidating invoices
- Working draft invoices to resolution
- Working with Treasury to get copies of missing invoices for them to clear from cash prepayments
- Minimising late payments
- Ensuring weekly KPIs are completed
- Completing monthly supplier reconciliations
- Flagging broken approval routes and approval route changes
- Ask Finance - responding to escalated internal queries to support the business
- Assisting with audit queries
- Answering the Finance telephone line
- Processing the Finance team post
AP Automation
- Maintaining / creating automation rules
- Working with suppliers and buyers to increase automated processing
- Dealing with OSV support cases and raising them to OSV, to flag invoice processing errors
- A new S2P platform implementation - Ivalua, you will be involved in transitioning of the current processes into the new platform and UAT testing will be a requirement (experience desirable but not essential, as full training will be given)
Accounts Receivable (back up support only)
- Raising sales invoices
- Creating customer accounts
- Assisting with payment allocations
- Completing balance sheet reconciliations
Continuous Improvement / Integration projects
- Assisting with Company consolidation projects
- Identifying areas for improvement and delivering enhancement projects
- Supporting buyers through tickets and drop in sessions
- Cre
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