Department: Finance
Salary: £52,549 - £58,595 per annum (Grade 6)
Reference: 1781
Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road
Date posted: 26 March 2024
Closing date: 9 April 2024
Further details and apply
Overview
About the Role
We require an Accounts Payable Manager to play an important role within the high-performing, busy Finance Department. The successful candidate will manage a team of 10 staff and be responsible for the settlement of supplier invoices and expenses in addition to managing the University purchasing card scheme.
The team received 93,000 supplier invoices in the financial year ending 31 July 2023.
About You
- You have experience of managing an Accounts Payable team in a large, multi-site, multi-currency, organisation operating an end-to-end Purchase to Pay process
- You have a detailed understanding of an effective Purchase to Pay process and the ability to articulate this to others
- You possess strong communication skills; excellent written and numerical skills
- You have good interpersonal skills, demonstrated by an ability to develop and progress working relationships with staff across the University, colleagues and key external bodies.
- Ability to build a customer-led service-orientated professional team
- You have experience of using an ERP system and experience of producing test scripts for testing system developments and upgrades. You have a passion for continuous improvement and developing systems to support the efficiency of the team.
About the Department
The role is based in the Finance Department of the Professional Services Directorate and is one of 4 manager roles reporting into the Deputy Director of Finance, Financial Controls and Systems.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
Further details and apply
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