Accounts Payable Clerk

Sharp Consultancy are looking for an experienced and detail-driven Accounts Payable Assistant to join our Finance team in Leeds on a 6 month fixed-term contract.

You’ll play a vital role in maintaining strong financial controls, ensuring supplier invoices and payments are processed accurately and efficiently, and supporting wider finance operations.

• Accurately process high volumes of supplier invoices in line with company policy
• Ensure correct coding across legal entities, departments, and GL accounts
• Manage invoice approval workflows and chase outstanding approvals
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies, duplicate invoices, and anomalies
• Maintain supplier master data, ensuring robust verification and controls
• Handle supplier and internal queries professionally and efficiently
• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences
• Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement controls
• Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances

We’re looking for someone who is confident, proactive, and thrives in a fast‑paced finance environment:

• Proven Accounts Payable experience, ideally in a high-volume or complex environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify and resolve discrepancies
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage workloads independently
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
• A proactive mindset with the ability to challenge processes and drive improvements
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Highly motivated with a collaborative approach

• Salary £30,000 - £33,000 dependent on experience
• Excellent benefits including pension, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, and gym discounts.
• Hybrid working model

Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years’ experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e‑mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.