OCU Group are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to join the team in our Stockport head office. The Accounts Payable (AP) Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing the accounts payable function, ensuring efficient and accurate processing of supplier invoices and payments, managing a team, and maintaining strong supplier relationships. This role also involves compliance with UK regulations, including VAT and company policies.
Responsibilities:
Lead, mentor, and manage the accounts payable team, ensuring performance targets are met. Conduct regular appraisals and set clear objectives for the team. Support team members in career development via training, coaching, mentoring, and the promotion and succession/talent processes. Adhere to all company processes regarding people management and role model professional behaviours. Ensure accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, purchase orders, and expense claims. Resolve discrepancies and manage invoice approvals in line with company policies. Ensure all standalone/No PO invoices are processed via the 3-way matching process. Manage and maintain finance system D365 ensuring accurate invoice data entry. Ensure CIS procedures are adhered to, applying team knowledge to invoice treatment and processing. Monitor the shared mailbox to ensure SLAs and KPIs are met. Ensure that all supplier queries are concluded and dealt with in a timely manner. Liaise with Procurement to resolve PO queries to agreed SLAs. Process weekly payments and manage cashflow. Carry out daily CHAPS/FASTER payments for urgent requirements. Investigate unallocated cash, debit balances, payment on accounts, and request refunds where appropriate. Ensure key supplier account reconciliations are carried out regularly. Manage and control the AP unallocated cash and credit balances. Approve bank payments and send accordingly. Experience:
Experience as an AP Manager in a multiple ledger business is essential. Proven ability to support strategic growth of teams through recruitment and organic growth. Ability to develop skills and enable personal and professional growth of individuals. A motivator who can create successful team dynamics and individual performance. Experience in successful conflict management and performance management. Experience within a hire/construction business is advantageous but not compulsory. Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions. We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment. We believe that being successful is a choice. We choose to be successful. We are OCU, 'One Company United'. We celebrate difference and appreciate diverse backgrounds. We encourage everyone who joins us to be themselves at work and create inclusive teams in our workplace.
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Lead, mentor, and manage the accounts payable team, ensuring performance targets are met. Conduct regular appraisals and set clear objectives for the team. Support team members in career development via training, coaching, mentoring, and the promotion and succession/talent processes. Adhere to all company processes regarding people management and role model professional behaviours. Ensure accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, purchase orders, and expense claims. Resolve discrepancies and manage invoice approvals in line with company policies. Ensure all standalone/No PO invoices are processed via the 3-way matching process. Manage and maintain finance system D365 ensuring accurate invoice data entry. Ensure CIS procedures are adhered to, applying team knowledge to invoice treatment and processing. Monitor the shared mailbox to ensure SLAs and KPIs are met. Ensure that all supplier queries are concluded and dealt with in a timely manner. Liaise with Procurement to resolve PO queries to agreed SLAs. Process weekly payments and manage cashflow. Carry out daily CHAPS/FASTER payments for urgent requirements. Investigate unallocated cash, debit balances, payment on accounts, and request refunds where appropriate. Ensure key supplier account reconciliations are carried out regularly. Manage and control the AP unallocated cash and credit balances. Approve bank payments and send accordingly. Experience:
Experience as an AP Manager in a multiple ledger business is essential. Proven ability to support strategic growth of teams through recruitment and organic growth. Ability to develop skills and enable personal and professional growth of individuals. A motivator who can create successful team dynamics and individual performance. Experience in successful conflict management and performance management. Experience within a hire/construction business is advantageous but not compulsory. Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions. We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment. We believe that being successful is a choice. We choose to be successful. We are OCU, 'One Company United'. We celebrate difference and appreciate diverse backgrounds. We encourage everyone who joins us to be themselves at work and create inclusive teams in our workplace.
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