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Accounts Payable Assistant - Part Time

Employer
Nest Corporation
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£16,000 - £18,000
Closing date
29 Jan 2022

Job Details

Organisational Overview

Your new team

The Finance department is made up by Business Partnering, Scheme Modelling and Pension Scheme Accounting and Financial Planning and Analysis where this role sits in.

The Financial Planning and Analysis team is responsible for, and not only:

-The financial well-being of the company through effective budgeting, forecasting monitoring and reporting of all corporation finances.

-Delivering a high-quality financial planning process that ensures resources are effectively prioritised.

-Managing NEST Corporation’s funding arrangements

-Designing and leading the corporation wide business plan process and business cases.

-Managing key external publications and initiatives relevant to the Corporation.

-Maintaining the accounts payable for the Corporation and processing payments for expenditure.

-The Corporation general ledger ensuring transactions are recorded and that finance reconciliations and statements.

Directorate/ Department Overview

What you’ll get in return

This role is a part time role,  on 22.5 hours per week. Ideally this would be spread over 5 days, but we are happy to have a conversation with all applicants to find the best fit. Location is flexible also. We will be flexible with working hours also- ideally 10 am – 2pm over 5 days as per example. This will be a 1 year FTC.

For internal candidates the salary will be determined based on experience and offered as a secondment, this role is a level 4.

Everyone wants a good work life balance, and you will be working with a truly flexible employer, fully embracing a working from home culture and flexible working hours.

You will have your birthday and Christmas Eve as an additional bonus to the already fantastic holiday allowance and of course…a generous pension contribution.

What you need to do now

Please complete your application on our website.

Application closing date is Friday 14th January 2022.

Nest is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all the nine protected characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

Please note that we can onboard and work remotely successfully during this period at Nest.

Role Requirements

Your new role

As Accounts Payable Assistant you will be involved in all aspects of the invoicing process. From ensuring invoices are saved into SAGE payment system to managing regular BACS run, International Payments and Bank Transfers, you will help the team maintaining the accounts payable and processing payments for the Corporation.

You will work with a variety of colleagues at all levels across the business to provide support on Purchase to Pay, our payment system, and to ensure that financial policies, procedures, and Government payables guidelines are always followed.

As an Account Payable Assistant, you will prepare figures and reports for activities such as monthly Purchased Orders Breach and cashflow, as well as perform supplier account reconciliations.

You’ll report directly to the Financial Accountant.

What you’ll need to succeed

We’d like you to have some great examples of how you manage invoice payments processes and how you instruct the business on systems, procedures, and policies.

You will have experience in facilitating payment of invoices in a timely manner whilst ensuring invoices are logged, approved, and checked for accuracy and compliancy.

You’ll have a good knowledge of SAGE and payment systems: Purchase to Pay would be an advantage.

You’ll have outstanding stakeholders’ management and communication skills.

You will be confident in producing reports and perform reconciliations.

Company

NEST is a great UK success story.  

Established in 2010, NEST is a critical pillar of the Government’s automatic enrolment programme, with a public service obligation (PSO) to accept any employer wishing to use the scheme to discharge their automatic enrolment duties.   From a standing start, we have delivered a high quality, low cost pension scheme open to all, which has not only delivered on its mission, but has also helped to drive up standards and best practice across the industry. Now with over 6 million members and well over half a million participating employers, NEST is playing a critical role in helping people save for their retirement - many of them low to moderate earners who may be saving for the first time, and moving jobs frequently.   NEST now occupies an important place in the pensions market and will deliver high quality pensions to mass market consumers for many years to come, leveraging its scale to deliver value through the combination of low costs, market leading investment solutions and modernised services all overseen by strong Trustee governance.     

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