Accounts Payable Supervisor

🧮 Accounts Payable Supervisor

📍 Brighton

💷 £40,000

🏡 2 days per week in the office

We at Alexander Lloyd are proud to be partnering a fast growing, hugely successful international business in Brighton on a key hire. They are looking for an Accounts Payable Supervisor to take ownership of the purchase to pay process across all group entities. Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role works closely with the wider finance team.

The Role:

It is a hands on role. You will own the day to day AP operation, from invoice processing and supplier queries through to payment runs and reconciliations, and you will be the go to person for anything AP related across the business.

The second half of the role is improving how it all works. The business already runs a modern AP stack with Tipalti, Spendesk and NetSuite, so you will be looking for ways to automate more, strengthen controls and streamline the purchase to pay process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily invoice processing making sure everything is accurate and issues are resolved quickly
• Manage the AP inbox daily, triaging and responding to supplier queries
• Run bi weekly payment runs, making sure payment terms are met and all approvals are completed
• Review and maintain the aged creditors report, reconciling and investigating any differences
• Complete monthly reconciliations
• Validate employee expenses twice weekly across all entities, ensuring compliance with the expense policy
• Own the monthly Spendesk bookkeeping, chasing missing receipts and importing results into NetSuite
• Manage AP tickets, responding to internal queries and keeping to agreed SLAs
• Support new tools onboarding for new users and follow up on open purchase orders
• Provide ad hoc analysis to the finance team when needed
• Drive continuous improvement across AP and Procurement, recommending process efficiencies and automation opportunities

What you will need:

• Proven experience in an Accounts Payable role, ideally within a multi entity environment
• A strong understanding of purchase to pay processes and controls
• Experience with modern tools/IT systems
• Excellent Excel and Google Sheets skills, with a sharp eye for detail
• Strong communication skills, comfortable managing both supplier and internal stakeholder relationships
• Organised and self motivated, able to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
• A problem solving mindset and a genuine interest in making processes better
• AAT qualified or actively studying towards AAT preferred

This is a great opportunity for an experienced AP professional ready to own the function, or an AP Supervisor looking to join a modern, tech led finance team where automation and improvement are actively encouraged.