Accounts Payable Specialist

Location: BELFAST ARNOTT HOUSE, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Job Description

• Review vendor invoices, record invoices according to company policy. Resolve any non-compliant invoices (for example NO PO, PO out-of-funds)
• Maintain accuracy in processing of AP transactions, including accounting coding, timely payments and reconciliations.
• Prepare weekly payments to vendors and employees (check, wire transfer and ACH payments)
• Review, verify and process employee expense reports to ensure they are in compliance with Company Policy
• Maintain vendor information including W-9, and banking information
• Process credit card statements
• Track, report, and pay of state and local sales and use taxes
• Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies
• Assist with the month end close of accounts payable and accruals
• Assist with the coordination and gathering of documents to support auditors requests
• Handle various other accounting duties as requested

Qualifications:

• 3 plus years of accounts payable and general accounting experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Oracle is preferred.
• Proven experience in driving problems to a resolution
• Strong computer and business solution software skills
• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with vendors, management, and auditors
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance or related field is preferred

At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.

If this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here.

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About Thales

In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable – and full of opportunities, trust is essential for societies to flourish. Trust in our institutions. Trust in our systems. Trust in technology. Trust in each other.

And the people we all rely on to make the world go round, they rely on Thales. They come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.

From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers navigate uncertainty with confidence and new frontiers with optimism. Thinking smarter and acting faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.

We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centered and sustainable. So that together we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.