Accounts Payable Specialist Associate - Ftc

Want to be part of a rapidly growing business that is evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe? If so, read on, as we’re looking for a ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST ASSOCIATE - 6 MONTH FTC to join our Edinburgh Finance team!

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK’s leading out-of-home business. With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and the launch of our transformative Send service, we’re bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we’re building an unparalleled group of talent that’s committed to help us power our mission to reshape the way parcels move, and redefine eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain. We’re a passionate bunch with high ambition – we collaborate, innovate, support each other, and leave egos at the door.

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe? If so, read on — we're looking for a Specialist Associate to join our Accounts Payable team on a 6 month FTC.

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK's leading out-of-home business. With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and our transformative Send service, we’re bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we're building an unparalleled group of talent committed to reshaping the way parcels move and redefining eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain — a passionate bunch with high ambition.

This role delivers Accounts Payable processes efficiently and effectively to month-end and payment deadlines, ensuring the highest standards of quality, accuracy and integrity for all entries to vendor, publisher, contractor and employee accounts. You'll accurately process supplier invoices, resolve supplier and internal queries, and escalated significant financial impact issues to your manager, or the relevant operational site or supplier.

• Support high-volume daily processing of invoices via Purchase Order or coding, taking responsibility for the timely and accurate processing of supplier invoices, credit notes, employee expenses and other authorised transactions into the Accounts Payable ledger.
• Process daily against supplies and claims recorded by operational sites using invoice matching, and post invoice matching discrepancies to the General Ledger via the invoice matching system.
• Check the accuracy of retail price, VAT, cost discount, handling allowance and supply/claim quantities on stock invoices, raising pricing, VAT and claim queries in line with defined processes.
• Ensure OCR invoice capture and auto-matching works optimally for your regularly used suppliers.
• Act as a multi-skilled processor, able to support any Accounts Payable transaction — including payment runs, manual payments and Concur Expense/Travel — for two or more supplier types (contractor, vendor, employee, publisher).

• Resolve supplier queries in a professional and timely manner, communicating with suppliers regarding payments and liaising with managers for invoice authorisation.
• Complete monthly reconciliation of supplier statements and checks.
• Respond to queries directed through the shared mailbox and supplier portal.

• Process weekly payment runs and other payment runs throughout the month, including ad-hoc manual payments as required.
• Support month-end balance sheet reconciliation and KPI reporting and analysis, owning your allocated outputs.
• Complete other day-to-day tasks as delegated by your manager — for example filing, opening mail, monitoring the shared email inbox, and supplier statement checks.
• Use SAP, SAP Concur, Excel and OCR tools (Kofax Read Soft Verify, SAP Kofax Process Director) daily, including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs.