Classifications

Accounts Payable Supervisor

Department: Finance

Location: Greenford, West London (On-site)

Type of Contract: Permanent

GBS is a higher education provider offering a range of sector-relevant courses across ten campuses in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Working in partnership with several of the UK’s leading higher education providers, we deliver vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in finance, accounting, business, construction, tourism, healthcare, and more.

Our Vision: Changing lives through education.

What We Do: The finance team supports the business by managing budgets, financial planning, reporting, compliance, and ensuring effective use of resources to enable strategic and operational goals.

The role: To manage the effective administration and implementation of the accounts payable process ensuring all payments have been processed and reconciled correctly on time.

To develop and write quality reports both internally for GBS and for GBS partner organisations and other external agencies. To contribute to preparations for degree awarding powers.

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.

Location
Greenford
Appointment Type
Permanent
Department
Finance
Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-time
Hours
40hrs (Onsite Working)
Salary
Competitive
Entity
GBS UK
Ref No
4789

Main Responsibilities

What the role involves:

  • Accountable of the end-to-end Accounts Payable process
  • Create close links with the bank reconciliation and feed any payments made in the business to the bank’s reconciliation process
  • Perform the month end closing process and reconciliation of the ledgers
  • Record all third-party invoices to correct general ledger and cost centres in our ERP
  • system (Unit4)
  • Line manage and develop Accounts Payable Administrators

Requirements

What Experience/Skills are required:

  • Demonstrable prior experience of working in accounts payable at supervisory or team leader level
  • A strong understanding of general ledger and cost centres
  • Attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with a diverse range of stakeholders
  • Dynamic, enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with excellent organisational skills

Desirable Experience/Skills:

  • Experience in using Unit4 (ERP system)

Other Information

What We Offer

  • 25 days annual leave, plus 8 public holidays
  • 1-day extra leave per year of service, up to a maximum of 5 days
  • Workplace pension scheme
  • Tuition reimbursement for career development courses
  • Flexible Benefits: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery, Techscheme and much more
  • Perks@Work discounts platform, wellbeing centre and much more
  • Reward and recognition programme
  • £500 award employee referral scheme
  • Discretionary annual performance bonus

GBS allows me to work according to my own style. This means that I am given autonomy over my workload and projects, which ultimately means that I can turn up to work and show my best self. The support from my coworkers and managers is something I haven’t experienced before in previous workplaces and makes GBS a great place to work!

— Kira McCormack (Professional Services Employee)

GBS is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. We take our core values seriously and work hard to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed.

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