Accounts Payable Assistant

Role Title: Accounts Payable Assistant

Division: Finance

Location: Leeds

Contract: until end of December 2026

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

To ensure accurate, timely, and controlled processing of supplier invoices and payments, maintaining strong financial control, supporting month-end close, and safeguarding the organisation against fraud and error.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Process supplier invoices accurately and in-line with company policies.
• Ensure appropriate coding to correct legal entities, departments and GL accounts.
• Manage invoice approval workflows and follow up on outstanding approvals.
• Identify and escalate discrepancies, duplicates, or anomalies.
• Maintain relevant supplier master data, ensuring appropriate verification and controls (e.g. bank detail checks, segregation of duties).
• Respond to supplier/business queries in a proactive, timely and professional manner.
• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences through active liaison with suppliers.
• Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement and control policies.
• Maintain strong anti-fraud controls (e.g. independent callback procedures, segregation of duties).
• Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances.

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply

• Significant prior experience in Accounts Payable, preferably within a complex, high-volume environment. 
• Comfortable with Finance and data but not required to be qualified accountant.

• Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly through the most appropriate channel within the team and to key stakeholders.
• Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively, working to a high degree of autonomy.
• Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
• Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions to sort issues.
• An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain anomalies
• Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
• Builds effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across the firm.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - proactively seeks to share information.
• Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.