Accounts Payable Assistant

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ASSISTANT - PROPERTY

LONDON - 3 DAYS OFFICE / 2 DAYS FROM HOME - 12-MONTH TEMP - A BUSY, HANDS-ON AP SEAT IN AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP

£200-£250 per day (inside IR35)

Are you an Accounts Payable professional who likes a full inbox and a clean ledger? Are you available from 1 December and able to commit to a full 12-month assignment?

We Do Group are supporting an acquisitive, international property business, recruiting an Accounts Payable Assistant for a 12-month temporary assignment at their London head office. You’ll sit in a small transaction services team and take on the day-to-day running of the supplier ledger, with the weekly payment run at the centre of it.

The role covers a period of shared parental leave. The person currently in the seat will be in and out of the business across the year, so they’ll train you up in December and then you become the constant. It’s steady, practical work with real volume behind it, and it suits someone organised who takes pride in getting suppliers paid on time and wants a long assignment they can settle into.

WISH LIST

• Hands-on accounts payable experience, including invoice processing, supplier queries and helping with payment runs
• Accurate with a heavy weekly volume, and happy to process invoices daily so nothing builds up
• Reliable and able to commit to the full 12 months, starting 1 December

THE ROLE

• Process a high volume of supplier invoices every day - usually 100+ a week, some in other languages
• Prepare the weekly payment run, pulling together approved invoices and checking them before they go out
• Send the run to finance leads in each region for approval and chase them so it stays on schedule
• Work with treasury so funds are in the right accounts, then upload and approve payments across several banks and currencies
• Process urgent manual payments that can’t wait for the main run
• Answer supplier queries, usually four or five a day and mostly “have I been paid?”
• Deal with councils on business rates bills, many of which arrive late
• Keep the AP ledger accurate and reconcile supplier statements, sorting discrepancies quickly
• Set up and maintain supplier details in the finance system
• Produce aged creditor reports and flag problem accounts
• Work with internal teams such as asset management to resolve invoicing issues
• Support month-end with ledger reconciliations, in line with internal controls and finance policies

YOUR PROFILE

• Accounts payable experience
• Effective communicator - written & verbal
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel
• High attention to detail
• Exposure to multi-currency payments advantageous, not essential

SALARY & BENEFITS

• £200-£250 per day (inside IR35)
• London head office: 3 days in the office, 2 from home
• 12-month assignment, starting 1 December 2026