Accounts Payable Controller

Shelbourne Motors is one of Northern Irelands most progressive and award-winning automotive groups. Operating across two state-of-the-art locations, we proudly represent Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Renault, Dacia and Maxus, alongside our AutoSelect used car supermarkets and our expanding Fleet (fleet4u) and Rental (SVRgo) divisions.

In recent years, Shelbourne Motors has undergone a major period of transformation and recognition.

Most recently, we were proudly awarded:

• Dealer Group of the Year 2024 & 2025
• EV Dealer of the Year 2025
• Best Marketing Campaign 2025
• Business Eye Northern Irelands Fastest Growing Family Business
• AM Awards Highly Commended: Best Marketing Strategy

Our success is driven by our people, our ambition, and our long-term Vision: To be the most trusted, customer-centred and sustainable automotive group.Our Mission and Values place customer experience, innovation, teamwork and zero-emissions leadership at the heart of everything we do. We are now seeking a dedicated, hard working Accounts Payable Controller to join our team in Portadown.

The Role

The purpose of the Accounts Payable Controller is to ensure the smooth running of the accounts payable function. The job holder will be an essential part of a growing team providing administrative support to the Accounts Manager.

Location:Portadown (Head Office)

Hours: Mon - Thurs 08:30 -17:30 and Fri 08:30 to 3pm (40hrs)

About You

This role is suited to an individual with substantial experience in an accounts payable team within a large organisation, ideally in the motor industry. We seek someone who can consistently deliver results, possesses strong attention to detail and accuracy in data entry, and demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Targets & objectives

Reporting to the Accounts Manager, you will collaborate closely with the sales and aftersales departments to help achieve business objectives, including manufacturer and financial targets. You will be responsible for the overall processing of all invoices and credit notes, checking and matching these to purchase orders by verifying GRNs against invoices and credits. This includes coding and entering data for invoices onto the purchase ledger system. Additionally, you will address and resolve all purchase ledger enquiries.

General duties

• You will reconcile all creditor statements on a monthly basis.
• Setting up BACS/faster payment runs and individual payments to the purchase ledger and allocating payments to invoices
• Paying for transactions with a Visa card and recording transactions and maintaining receipts
• Assisting with procurement admin when needed, including entering purchase orders on the system and ensuring any queries regarding no PO / incorrect PO on invoices are promptly dealt with by the procurement admin team.
• Assisting senior accounts team members with all other areas of finance function as is required.

Why join us?

With 53 years in business and a strong track record of providing outstanding care this is a unique opportunity to join our Management team at a Group level. Working closely with other managers you will play an integral part in helping the business achieve monthly and quarterly objectives.

Skills:
Attention to detail, Accuracy, Data Entry, Teamwork, Excellent interpersonal skills,

Benefits:
30 days annual leave Employee Referral Programme Company Events Employee Discounts Company Car (T&C's apply) Long Service Awards

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