Accounts Payable Clerk

at  NewsUK

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.
The Team: You will be part of the Accounts Payable team. We are responsible for the payment of all invoices for News UK and Wireless paying for all goods and services. This is a very busy role requiring someone who is personable, used to working in a fast paced environment and prides themselves on attention to detail and accuracy at all times. The team are enthusiastic, motivated and a collaborative group of people, sociable with a strong team spirit.

KEY SKILLS

• Good excel skills and the ability to learn new systems
• Accurate and a good attention to detail
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment
• Multiskilled to provide cover as and when required
• We use SAP, VIM & OCR previous experience of using these systems would be useful but not essential

• Managing a high volume of supplier telephone calls
• Managing invoice rejections in VIM, liaising with suppliers and the business accordingly
• Checking of any final demands and reminders received from suppliers
• Coding of supplier invoices for certain areas of the business
• Management of key Supplier accounts
• Preparation of the Urgent Lists and checking of the Payment proposals
• Management of various mailboxes - ensuring queries are dealt with on a timely basis
• Validation in OCR of PO and Non PO Invoices ensuring accuracy at all times - as and when required
• Raise internal ZL & ZJ journals and document reversals as and when required and pass for checking and input
• Processing adhoc invoices -Capex, Fast Entry, Foreign and monthly memo’s
• Input of the Miscellaneous Payment requests
• Processing of upload accounts eg, SPS, Amex and Commercial