Senior Account Payable and Expenses Executive at Aman (2025-05 – 2026-02)
- Responsible for verifying expense reports received in SAP Concur, as to the amount, currency, legal entity, GL code, allocation, cost centre and ensuring relevant documentation is received by staff.
- Validating staff expense reports against company travel and expense policy.
- Reviewing hotel allocations and liaising with the Accounts Receivable team for any recharge queries.
- Maintaining the Accounts Payable staff control account across multiple legal entities, posting staff expense claims, corporate card expenses, credit card reconciliations, payments and any journal adjustments as required into Sun Systems.
- Ensuring new staff bank details are validated and stored securely in the system whilst maintaining a high level of compliance and attention to detail.
- Employs adequate internal control procedures.
- Preparing payment files for upload in the e-Banking system for direct bank transfers.
- Processing company travel invoices and maintaining the corresponding supplier account.
- Assists in the management of internal and external audits when they occur.
- Assists in maintaining accurate and timely financial and operating information and ensures corporate deadlines are met.
- Pulling monthly staff aged creditor reports from the accounting system across multiple entities, analysing month on month movement and investigating aged balances.
- Complying with month end deadlines and working with the financial reporting team to close the books each month.
- Reconciling staff expense, corporate credit card and travel accounts across multiple entities & currencies
Senior Accounts Payable at Nomad Foods (2024-11 – 2025-05)
Finance Shared Service centre at Nomad Foods for Europe/ London office.
- Processing France and Italy PO's invoices into SAP.
- Parking no PO's invoices into SAP, sending parked invoices for approval, and chasing approval.
- Dealing with GRNI balance, sending email to PO creator.
- Dealing with AP queries.
- Performing suppliers statement reconciliation.
- Posting and validating rebates invoices.
- Completing spreadsheet for provision.
Senior Accounts Payable and Receivable Specialist (Temporary) at Roust UK Limited (2024-02 – 2024-10)
Responsible for end-to-end accounts payable and receivable process
- Processing supplier invoices into SAP, coding, sending for approval and chasing approval.
- Supplier statement reconciliations and running weekly supplier payments.
- Resolving with internal and external queries and responsible for AP and AR mailboxes.
- Dealing with cash flow, processing cash received, and payments made.
- Responsible for Bank reconciliation.
- Raising sales invoices, posting cash received and reconciling cash against invoice.
- Chasing payments from customers and sending statements to customers.
Senior Accounts Payables Assistant (Temporary) at Globeleq Africa Limited (2022-11 – 2023-09)
Managing the UK and Africa Accounts Payable
- Managing various bank payments in a timely manner and accurately, inputting transactions onto IFS.
- Ensuring all supplier invoices are coded and signed off in line with the approved authority levels.
- Investigating and resolving supplier invoices under query with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Setting up manual payments for multiple currencies (EURO, GBP USD, CHF and many more) from various bank accounts.
- Responsible for BACS run on a weekly basis for multiple currencies.
- Responsible for bank statements reconciliations for multiple currencies accounts.
- Maintaining and reviewing existing processes and procedures, critically assess, review, and implement improvements as appropriate.
- Acting as a key point of escalation, investigating, and resolving disputes related to processes promptly.
- Maintaining and ensuring accuracy of the supplier set ups in IFS and amending change of bank details for suppliers.
Europe Accounts Payables Manager (Temporary) at Ascott Group Limited (2022-01 – 2022-09)
- First point of contact in Accounts Payables for suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Responsible for Accounts Payables for 6 entities and dealing with recharges costs between entities.
- Resolving internal, external queries, and dealing with all Accounts Payables queries.
- Performing suppliers statement reconciliations, dealing with direct debits and prepayment.
- Making intercompany transfers and refunds to various entities.
- Running aging reports, accruals, and all related Accounts Payables reports.
- Responsible for AP month end, closing and opening periods in Oracle.
- Responsible for multiples currency payments runs, uploading payments to the banking platform and processing manual payments.
- Creating Accounts Receivables Customer.
- Managing 5 accounts payable assistants in Europe and Indonesia, providing training, and coaching.
- Chasing invoice approval from business managers, checking payment run and approve.
- Responsible for AP mailbox and dispatching invoices to AP Assistants.
Senior Accounts Payable (Temporary) at Nelsons (2021-11 – 2021-12)
- Running weekly aged creditor reports and producing parked invoice reports on SAP and exporting to excel performing Pivot table and V lookup formulas.
- Processing PO invoices to SAP matching them to PO's and chasing for PO to be receipted.
- Parking no PO invoices to SAP coding invoices and chasing invoice approvals.
- Preparing foreign payment in excel using data from Sap, in USD, JPY, AUD, CHF and EUR.
- Exporting data from SAP to excel, performing supplier statement reconciliation.
- Responsible for AP inbox and responding to suppliers' queries.
- Onboarding new supplier and updating supplier information.
Accounts Payable Supervisor at National Car Parks (2014-07 – 2020-06)
- Managing, coaching, and developing 5 AP Clerks, identifying training areas, development needs and reviewing their work.
- Conducting one-to-one and performance reviews and looking after key and business critical suppliers accounts.
- Part of implementation team for new system called KOFAX, working with consultants.
- First point of contact in AP, Testing, and train to train.
- Responsible to new system implementation in AP and providing required information to consultants.
- Dealing with Accounts Payable period end process: checking all transactions are entered, import internet expenses, running invoices validation report, and ensuring all payments are completed.
- Transferring Journal entries to GL, reviewing the journal entries report, approving journals, performing reconciliation of AP to GL balances, and closing the payable period and running accrual's report.
- Processing up to 300 plus invoices a week, PO, and no PO invoices into Basware system, scanning supplier's invoices and checking accuracy of invoice entry, coding, and matching invoices against purchase orders, sending invoices for approval, and chasing approval.
- Working through the Kofax queues processing invoices pending manual verification.
- Ensuring invoices against service-based PO's are amended: Quality matches one the invoice amount or line amount.
- Resolving staging page errors and dealing with coding reject statuses.
- Running invoice approval status report and running GRNI report.
- Processing prepayments for rent, chasing VAT invoices from supplies after payment and matching prepayment invoices, processing monthly and quarterly rent invoices, rates, and service charges.
- Dealing with weekly close and responsible for AP month end process.
- Managing weekly BACS and Chaps runs for supplier's payments.
- Managing employee's expenses, auditing them, approving, and running weekly expenses payment.
- Matching Direct Debits, Chaps and Standing Order payments into Oracle for month end and re-coding.
- Dealing with all supplier's queries, amending, and setting up new supplier's request, liaising with legal teams as required and performing due diligence and credit checks for new suppliers.
- Taking full ownership of the Accounts Payable process looking after purchase ledgers, managing Accounts payable inbox, dealing with all AP phones calls.
- Raising Purchase Orders, using Procure to Pay Process and ensuring supplier statement reconciliations are completed accurately and on time.
