Accounts Payable Manager

Farol Ltd is an extremely successful and growing multisite agricultural and ground care business. We are the largest John Deere dealership in the UK, with an annual turnover of close to £200m.

Established as a family business in 1976, Farol today is made up of 300 Service, Parts, Sales, Transport and Business Support Team Members, whilst still remaining 100% family owned.

Holding the renowned John Deere franchise along with many other brands, we are the market leaders in agriculture, ground care and homeowner products.

We are currently looking for an experienced Accounts Payable specialist to take the lead role in a small payables team. This is a hands‑on AP role, where the key responsibilities will include taking control of the aged creditors, clearing queries and any aged items, answering incoming enquiries from internal and external customers, resolving to swift deadlines, processing a high volume of invoices, supplier statement reconciliations across a ledger of 400 suppliers/60,000 invoices, and the preparation of weekly payment runs.

This role will report into the Finance Manager.

• Processing a high number of invoices each day.
• Carrying out weekly payment runs.
• Overseeing and managing from a multitude of automated excel reports that run the department together with the accounting system.
• Processing all invoices through the EDMS (electronic document management system) as the first point of call.
• Managing invoice processing KPIs day to day to ensure kept on track and ensure unprocessed invoices doesn’t go above thresholds set.
• Clearing down disputes within a 7 day KPI with the business
• Clearing down invoices pending authorisation with the business within set KPIs.
• Delivering and supporting PO process for all aspects of the business;with 3 way matching.
• Carrying out supplier reconciliations for key accounts using Excel template and electronic data files provided by suppliers.
• Overseeing credit cards & petty cash processing.
• Reviewing and processing the statutory Payment Practices Report with a view to continual improve KPIs,

• Previous experience of leading a team of people is essential (can be small teams)
• Extensive experience within a payables function, meeting deadlines and service delivery
• The ability to work quickly and accurately
• Strong understanding of accounting systems and streamlining options, along with extensive experience of accounts payable procedures
• Solid IT skills – intermediate ability with MS Word, Excel and Outlook along with the ability to quickly pick up the use of new software
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Basic salary in the region of £35,000 to £40,000 dependent on experience, 20 days holiday increasing by 1 day for each completed year of service up to a maximum of 25 days (plus Bank Holidays), company pension, employee discount schemes, employee wellbeing and financial planning service, cycle to work scheme

8am - 5pm Monday to Friday. Please note this is an office based role.

Previous experience in a similar role previously is essential