[Hiring] Accounts Payable and Administration Assistant @The Advantage Travel Partnership

Role Description

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a fast-paced and growing travel business. Reporting to the AMS Finance Senior Admin Executive, you will work alongside a supportive team of AMS administration professionals. You will also build strong working relationships with colleagues across Advantage, our member businesses and our travel supplier partners.

The overall purpose of your job is to provide accurate and efficient accounts payable and back-office administration support for Advantage Managed Services. This includes processing supplier payments, completing bank reconciliations and helping to ensure that financial transactions are managed accurately and on time.

What you’ll do

• Process supplier payments accurately and within agreed timescales
• Prepare and process high volumes of BACS, CHAPS and SEPA bank transfers
• Complete bank reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
• Check payment information and maintain accurate financial records
• Liaise with travel suppliers and member businesses by telephone and email
• Respond promptly and professionally to payment and account queries
• Provide general back-office and finance administration support
• Follow internal financial controls, approval processes and operating procedures
• Support the wider finance team with other ad hoc duties
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, accuracy and service delivery

Qualifications

• Experience working within a finance department, ideally in an accounts payable role
• Processing supplier payments or large volumes of bank transfers
• Building relationships with suppliers and business partners by telephone and email
• Using Microsoft Excel at an intermediate level, including formulas
• Applying strong numerical skills and excellent attention to detail
• Organising and prioritising a varied workload effectively
• Working independently while remaining a collaborative team member
• Communicating clearly and professionally, both in writing and verbally

Requirements

• Processing bank reconciliations
• Using the Vertical Systems TARSC back-office platform
• Working within the travel industry

Benefits

• Service-focused and committed to delivering operational excellence
• Accurate, dependable and comfortable taking ownership of your work
• A positive and supportive team player
• Confident engaging with colleagues, members and supplier partners
• Able to adapt and work effectively in a changing environment
• Naturally enthusiastic, curious and committed to continuous improvement
• Interested in developing your knowledge, skills and career
• Aligned with our values of service, purpose, integrity, recognition, innovation and teamwork
• Able to prove your right to work in the UK

Please note, due to not having a sponsorship license, we can only accept applications from people within the UK who can prove their right to work.

At Advantage, we embrace the diversity of culture, gender, physical capability and thought. We firmly believe that true innovation cannot happen without this real-life variety in our working community. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people of all walks of life aspire to work.