Accounts Payable Manager

Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations—turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges

Job purpose: 

The Accounts Payable Manager plays a vital role in both financial operations and the wider company. Oversees the Accounts Payable department, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices and expenses. Key responsibilities include managing the AP team and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and compliance. The AP manager will be working with numerous stakeholders across the business to ensure the Procure to Pay process is adhered to, and payments are made in a timely manner. As the first contact for AP related queries, we are looking for a confident self-starter who is supremely organised, comfortable working to deadlines and eager to own the process.

How you will contribute at Janes: 

• Supervise and support day-to-day activities of the accounts payable team, including assigning tasks, monitoring performance, driving efficiencies and providing ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Oversee the accurate and timely processing of all invoices, expenses and other payments, managing the payment runs, credit card reconciliations, while ensuring compliance with company policies. Manage audit and other ad hoc queries.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of accounts payable records, including processing, reconciliation, and maintaining a clean purchase ledger.
• Own the Month End Review Process, hitting deadlines, compiling relevant financial reports including KPIs and collaborating with wider finance function to deliver best-in-class reporting.
• Represent the AP team to the wider business, manage internal stakeholder queries and collaborate with the wider business to identify, design and implement process improvements.
• Compile financial reports as part of the Month End process.
• Cover duties for absence in department to support continuous process. 

The ideal skills and experience for this role are: 

• Proven working experience as an Accounts Payable Manager.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for vendor and internal relationships.
• Comfortable working to strict deadlines and problem solving on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial management.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of NetSuite and Office 365 are essential.
• SAP Concur Invoice and Expenses experience is an advantage.

Benefits:

• Annual health checkup
• National Pension scheme
• Meal Card (Sodexo)
• Healthy Half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
• 22 days of annual leave  
• Transportation allowance
• Day care / Creche Reimbursement
• Group Medical Claim
• Access to LinkedIn Learning 

We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.

Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.

Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.  We will always consider part time or flexible applications

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