Audley Group Hiring for Purchase Ledger Manager Job at Egham, England Full Time

Audley Group has been a pioneer in the provision of aspirational housing with care for more than 20 years. Through our two brands Mayfield Villages and Audley Villages, property owners live independent lives in wonderful environments with purpose-built apartments, swimming pools, bars, restaurants and health studios. They access care support when they need it. It doesn’t look or feel anything like a care home. They are beautiful award winning developments.

Today Audley has 19 villages around the UK, both wholly owned and in joint ventures, 14 open and 5 under development. We have over 1400 people living with us. We employ more than 800 people and continue to lead the market as we grow our business, and evolve the properties, facilities and services that we provide.

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable professional initially for a 12 month Fixed term contract.

The main purpose of the role is to support with the Accounts Payable and Expenses Administration Process, delivering the service to support the Finance Team and business in paying all non-payroll expenditure for the group.

The organisation offer a Hybrid work pattern of 2 days in the office and 3 from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with an AP team of approximately 3.
• Implementing and monitoring standard procedures and improving the internal control environment across the function.
• Managing the month end process for accounts payable, expenses and credit cards to ensure that deadlines are met with all applicable accounts being reconciled and signed off.
• Building relationships with key suppliers and the group procurement team.
• Overseeing the purchase ledger function, ensuring all invoices are processed and payment runs are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensuring all supplier statements are fully reconciled on a monthly basis.
• Improving the purchase ledger and staff expenses function.
• Working with the Finance Transformation lead to Implementation of Purchase Order to Payment process across the group.
• Working closely with the management accounting teams to support accurate reporting for the group.
• Supporting the Year End and interim audit processes as required.
• Using effective metrics to provide meaningful reporting to aid monitoring the performance of the AP and Expense processing function.

You will need

• Broad experience of accounts payable function from invoice processing to vendor administration
• At least 5 years of AP admin experience
• Intermediate to advanced use of Excel
• Working knowledge of VAT
• Able to build positive and constructive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
• Excellent organisation skills
• Good Excel and all-round IT skills
• Able to demonstrate achieving success in a deadline driven environment and commitment to continuous improvement.

Audley Group is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. See also ‘DE&I policy/statement’