Payments Coordinator

Sewell Wallis are recruiting a permanent, full-time, experienced Payments Coordinator, within the Accounts Payable team of a thriving organisation based in Bradford, who provide services across the Yorkshire region.

They are looking for an experienced, and forward-thinking Payments Coordinator to manage all payments leaving the business, to ensure strict regulations and controls are in place.

What will you be doing?

• Coordinate and process the day-to-day payments on behalf of the group, including Accounts Payable, Employee Expenses, and customer payments.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in payment methods, BACS, CHAPS, DD's.
• First point of contact for internal and external audit.
• Ensures all payments have been distributed to authorisers and submitted before the relevant cut off times - maintaining a rota of payment authorisers to ensure that payment deadlines are met.
• Monitor the bank accounts for rejected payments/account balances. Act as a point of contact between the bank and the business with regards to payments processed.
• Maintains all purchase cards and issues any new applications to the bank.
• Ensures that direct debit collections are processed in a timely manner.
• Assists with the preparation of cash flow forecasts and liaises with treasury counterparts to ensure the efficient and effective management of cash and liquidity.
• Measures the number of manual payments from around the business monthly and supports the manager in educating departments to understand average payment processing costs and cost saving opportunities.

What skills are we looking for?

• Previous experience as a Payments Coordinator / Accounts Payable.
• SAP S4 and Ariba experience.
• Can demonstrate and articulate the end to end payments processes stating what controls should be in place.
• Good understanding of segregation of duties and what the impact is if not adhered to.
• Passionate about providing an excellent customer service.
• Strong knowledge of the BACS administration process including what action should be taken if there is a problem with BACS.

What's on offer?

• Up to £29,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Hybrid working, 4 days from home, 1 in the office.
• Attractive pension scheme.
• Generous holiday package.
• Fantastic team culture.
• A great benefits package including various health care initiatives.

Submit your CV below, or contact Emma Johnsen on 07780 332 812.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.