Accounts Payable Manager

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has a broad and diverse supply chain and is committed to ensuring payments are made in a timely manner whist ensuring appropriate governance is maintained.

The role will span payments made on behalf of schools through the annual buy back provision as well as through the Council’s arm’s length bodies. There will be legislative requirements within this role such as managing the CIS scheme, VAT returns as well and internal and external audits.

The role links into all Council departments so being able to develop effective relationships is a key requirement in this complex organisation to allow for collaborative approaches and knowledge sharing.

As the Accounts Payable Manager, you will be responsible for the management and development of a small high performing team to meet the performance requirements that are currently in place. The role will also assist with the review and maintenance of the teams Business Continuity Plan that dovetails with Corporate Procurement to enable resilience as a P2P team

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• MAAT or ACCA accredited is desirable or working towards
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience of working on complex requirements such as IR35, CIS and VAT

You will be an accounts payable professional with a strong understanding of team management and development and be able to develop strong stakeholder relationships both internally and externally.

To be the subject matter expert in CIS, IR35 and VAT process and returns, and to have a critical and analytical mindset to review current processes and seek to innovate or automate where appropriate.

You must love data and be able to give context to drive information that that can used by the organisation to develop its strategic outlook. A confident self-starter who can quickly forge strong working relationships with the Accounts Payable team, the Corporate Procurement team and the wider Commercial team.

Accounts Payable is a small but high performing team that sits in parallel with Corporate Procurement to form the Purchase2Pay team led by the Head of Procurement.

The information seen and heard within Accounts Payable can be used to drive strategic discussions that cannot be gleaned from data alone, and you are seen as an integral part of the end to end process.

As a team we seek to be innovative and at the forefront of being able to think differently to enable change in an often-regulated process, your thoughts and opinions will always be valued and considered as part of the trust culture we have developed.