Senior Accounts Payable Analyst/Advisor

About Baringa:
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges. 

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.


Our Finance Department are looking for an experienced Senior Accounts Payable Analyst/Advisor to join the team.



 

What you will be doing
 

• Entering supplier invoices into accounting software, ensuring accurate coding and obtaining appropriate authorization
• Perform 3-way checks on associate invoices and preparing self-bill invoices for umbrella companies
• Payment processing in accounting software and banking portals
• Month-end processes and reconciliations
• Other ad-hoc tasks as required incl. ability to identify and work on process improvements
• Payables mailbox management; including answering queries and following up on approvals
• Performing bank reconciliations on a daily basis; Clearing debit balances

Your skills and experience
 

• Prior experience working in an Accounts Payable function at least 2 years.
• Exposure to processing invoices in different currencies and entities; experience in payment runs, bank reconciliations, debit balances, bank portals.
• Keen to collaborate with others, knowing that the best results come from pooling ideas, experience, and expertise.
• Focused on problem-solving – able to recognize how issues and challenges have come about, offer solutions to resolve the problem.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of change; working with multiple deadlines.
• Knowledge of time and expenses systems and debt collection is preferrable.
• Experience in the use of MS Excel and MS Office and an accounting package (Capture, Dimensions and Concur expenses, experience in these would be an advantage).
• Experience in the use of ERP systems.
• Good customer services attitude with a strong attention to detail.
• Shared Mailbox management.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.
At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our B Corp™ certification shows that we’ve met and held ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.

We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign: Economics of Kindness. You can see some additional recent impact work by clicking here.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .