Accounts Payable Advisor

Accounts Payable Advisor

Details:

Contract Type: Permanent

No of Positions available: One

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £32,373 - £35,390, Grade F (pay award pending)

Location: Hybrid working with Invergordon office base

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Want to feel good about the work you do? Albyn Housing Society has a fantastic opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our passionate and dedicated Finance team.

We have many aspirations and ambitions to continually improve our services to our 3,700 customers, spread across 70 rural and urban communities in the Highlands. Our new vision and values will drive our strategic direction by ensuring we:

“Maintain and build quality homes, providing excellent customer service, and giving opportunities for people and communities to flourish.”

We are a people-first organisation, and our values are embodied in our everyday working lives – we want someone to join us who shares and exhibits these values of:

“Being Caring”

Being Adaptable

Being Professional”

As we continue to recover from the pandemic and face the many and mounting current economic challenges, we are delivering and developing services in new and innovative ways, including participating in a hybrid working model of ‘Hub, Home and Roam”.

- ‘Hub’ means you can still see colleagues face-to-face.

- ‘Home’ is about how we have shown we can be productive and efficient when working remotely.

- ‘Roam’ is about offering community-based service delivery, meeting customers, and visiting them in their homes or local communities.

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About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, well organised and caring individual to join Albyn Housing Society in the Finance team.

As an Accounts Payable Advisor, you will be expected to ensure the timely disbursement of the Society’s dues to meet its financial obligations, maintain the accuracy and integrity of the Society’s systems, diligently monitor and report on supplier accounts, and ensure internal and external customers receive support regarding payable-related queries.

In particular, you will be required to support the development of the Payables function, ensure the Society’s compliance with internal and external standards, and enhance opportunities for efficiencies throughout the organisation.

Your role will involve working closely with the Finance Manager to ensure the efficient processing of the outgoings of the business.

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced finance professional.

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Main Responsibilities

- Provide guidance to the finance assistants.

- Help maintain the integrity of the Society’s finance systems.

- Ensure appropriately approved payments reach their destinations as obliged.

- Produce reports and offer insights for internal decision makers.

- Streamline payables procedures to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

- Provide payables support and advice to other departments.

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About You

- You will hold at least an entry-level accounting or bookkeeping qualification.

- You will have an excellent attention to detail and the ability to effectively organise your own workload and guide that of others.

- You will have experience with a variety of payables tasks, delivering them with accuracy and efficiency.

- You will have knowledge of Microsoft Excel to analyse and reconcile financial records.

- You will have the drive to develop efficiencies within the department, work collaboratively and productively with other departments to ensure enhancements are reflected throughout the organisation.

- You will understand the Society’s objectives and embody its values.

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What we are Offering:

Albyn offers a supportive and friendly environment, where our people are valued and appreciated and are rewarded:

- Competitive salary

- A generous annual leave entitlement

- Employee benefit discounts

- Excellent development and training opportunities

- Company pension scheme

- Group life cover

- Access to an employee assistance program available 24/7 and an employee wellbeing Hub.

- Family friendly policies

- Flexible working hours

- Albyn Group sick pay scheme

- Car Allowance (If applicable to your post)

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How to Apply:

Candidates apply by submitting a completed application form or CV along with a supporting statement to recruitment@albynhousing.org.co.uk, to demonstrate your skills, experience and knowledge, which are relevant to the Person Specification and Job Description.

Application packs can be downloaded from our website https://www.albynhousing.org.uk/careers/ or, to have this e-mailed, please contact recruitment@albynhousing.org.uk

For further information, please contact William Blandford on 01349 855 962

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 3 May 2024.

The interview date is Wednesday 15 May 2024.