Accounts Payable Manager

Accounts Payable Manager

Programme Name: LCST

Location: Bristol, UK

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Role Overview:

Leidos Europe is looking for a Leidos Supply Accounts Payable Manager to join the UK team based in Bristol.  Leidos works closely with its customers to provide ongoing support and services to multiple public sector organisations. This role is concerned with Leidos Europe’s largest contract, the LCST project.  

The role offers the opportunity to work on cross functional teams; interfacing with Integration, TVS Supply Chain Co-ordinators, Buyers, Goods Receipting, Sage experts, IT and Kuehne and Nagel.

You will be responsible for all aspects of the Leidos Supply Accounts Payable function, with particular focus on the Sage Accounts Payable sub-ledger.  You will manage a team of 6 x staff, with a focus on processing efficiency through use of KPIs, SLA’s, Continuous Improvement and Systems Development.  

You will need to demonstrate enthusiasm, determination, an ability to build productive relationships across diverse skillsets and ultimately will need to deliver on time and to a high quality standard in a fast-paced dynamic environment.  It is important that you have a team player mind-set, as sharing knowledge with existing members of the accounts payable team will be critical to success. 

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supplier POD receipt and Supplier invoice match) are tracked and resolved promptly
• Represent the Finance Function at key supplier led meetings
• Ensure timely payment of commodities suppliers within their terms
• Ensure weekly CPSP meetings are held ensuring the accurate coding in accordance with MoD guidelines and to report on exceptions and errors in CPSP processing and drive resolution of discrepancies and issue
• Produce weekly dashboards to report on the 2 Way Match and 3 Way Match performance each week for Team Leidos Sage, and MODSage
• Prepare monthly reconciliation of AP sub-ledger and Escrow bank account and balance sheet accounts
• Produce weekly statements for all suppliers for both Team Leidos Sage and MODSage, to show the current status of all invoices held
• Create additional more in-depth weekly statement reconciliations for the key suppliers
• Actively manage supplier relationships ensuring a high level of customer service at all times
• Produce the VAT returns for Leidos Supply
• Actively support and respond to customer queries and audit requests
• Prepare all the documentation required for the external audit and support with audit requirements throughout the audit period
• Support Business Case and Business Development activities relating to new suppliers and contracts
• Drive improvements across the business by engaging with Integration and IT to fix and develop areas that will create efficiencies, these are tracked and updated on the weekly BITE call
• Develop statistical and financial reporting of the AP function
• Drive consistency and standardisation across the accounts payable team, ensuring compliance to Leidos standards and requirements
• Support the development of, and continually upskill, the Accounts Payable Team

Required Skills:

• Experience working within an Accounts Payable team, acting as a manager & liaising with suppliers and key stakeholders across the organisation
• Business (Finance) Acumen
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience of owning, driving and delivering business results
• IT proficient (particularly Excel, PowerPoint)
• Background in Accounting and Finance.  The successful candidate will be from a multi-disciplinary background with a proven track record of having demonstrated the key competences listed above

Desired Skills:

• Experience of using SAGE ERP X3
• Recognized Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ICEAW)
• Strong experience in AP or Finance operations

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).

Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK's defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.