Accounts Payable Manager

Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working) Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.

Role Overview

The Accounts Payable (AP) Manager will manage a small AP team to ensure the timely and accurate payment of invoices; an important part of our supplier relationships. The role will involve daily line management of the team and working closely with suppliers and colleagues across the business to resolve queries and overdue invoices in a timely and effective manner.

Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…

• Effective management of a team of AP Administrators, supporting them with their development plans
• Ensuring all invoices are processes within the agreed timescales, in line with set standards
• Driving continuous improvement activities
• Producing monthly KPIs and reporting information to the Senior Financial Operations Manager and other key stakeholders
• Conducting regular audits to review any changes to suppliers and ensuring the appropriate authorisation is sought
• Ensuring G3 controls are adhered to and collaborating with the Internal Controls team
  
  

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….

• Demonstrable experience of purchase ledger processes
• A strong working knowledge and understanding of Transform and E1 systems
• Experience managing a small team
  
  

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Possess the enthusiasm to improve existing processes
• Take an effective and proactive approach to problem-solving
• Engage with and motivate others
• Be an excellent communicator
• Possess excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
  
  

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.