Company description:
A rewarding place to work. At Rathbones, We invest in everyone’s tomorrow that includes our people. We are always looking for future talent, and we can help you build a rewarding career with clear paths to progression and the opportunity to share in the success of our business.
Job description:
Role Title: Accounts Payable Assistant
Division: Finance
Location: Leeds
Contract: until end of December 2026
Working pattern: Hybrid
About the Role
To ensure accurate, timely, and controlled processing of supplier invoices and payments, maintaining strong financial control, supporting month-end close, and safeguarding the organisation against fraud and error.
What youll be responsible for
- Process supplier invoices accurately and in-line with company policies.
- Ensure appropriate coding to correct legal entities, departments and GL accounts.
- Manage invoice approval workflows and follow up on outstanding approvals.
- Identify and escalate discrepancies, duplicates, or anomalies.
- Maintain relevant supplier master data, ensuring appropriate verification and controls (e.g. bank detail checks, segregation of duties).
- Respond to supplier/business queries in a proactive, timely and professional manner.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences through active liaison with suppliers.
- Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement and control policies.
- Maintain strong anti-fraud controls (e.g. independent callback procedures, segregation of duties).
- Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances.
About you
If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply
- Significant prior experiencein Accounts Payable, preferably within a complex, high-volume environment.
- Comfortable with Finance and data but not required to be qualified accountant.
- Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly through the most appropriate channel within the team and to key stakeholders.
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively, working to a high degree of autonomy.
- Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
- Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions to sort issues.
- An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain anomalies
- Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
- Builds effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across the firm.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills – proactively seeks to share information.
- Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
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