Accounts Payable and Reconciliation Assistant

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid – 2–3 days per week in the office)

Contract: Temp to Perm, initially 12 weeks

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Pay Rate: £13.52 per hour

Our client is seeking an Accounts Payable and Reconciliation Assistant to join their finance team on a temporary basis. This hybrid role offers a great opportunity to work within a busy finance function, supporting essential payment and reconciliation processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage regular supplier and network partner payment runs, ensuring timely and accurate processing.
• Prepare supplier payment runs using SAP and Bottomline, maintaining full compliance with internal controls.
• Liaise with Treasury to secure authorisation and confirm availability of funds for payments.
• Maintain bank and control accounts, ensuring reconciliations are completed accurately and within agreed timelines.
• Reconcile Barclaycard control accounts and work with cardholders to clear outstanding items.
• Manage the onboarding of new procurement cardholders and approvers, including training and system setup.
• Maintain accurate procurement cardholder data and provide ongoing support to users and approvers.
• Administer monthly data interfaces, ensuring accurate reconciliation in SAP and timely reporting to the business.
• Process VAT reclaims for late-coded or post–month-end transactions.
• Conduct monthly audits of VAT invoices and procurement card expenditure to identify non-compliance or misuse.

About You:

• Previous experience in an accounts payable, finance administration, or reconciliation role.
• Proficiency with SAP or similar financial systems.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively both independently and as part of a team.