Description
About GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers.
Why you should be@GBG
Reach
The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else. This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world.
Trust
When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.
About the team
Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal, we strive to have the best highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination.
The role
As part of a UK finance team, this role will have the opportunity to really make a mark on the future success of GBG, and your record of achievements. Working from our Chester headquarters the role will report to the Group Financial Controller within this fast paced and acquisitive organisation.
What you will do
- Manage the Accounts Payable team
- Focus on training, developing and motivating team to be their best and most engaged selves; recognising differences, strengths and wellbeing needs
- Collaboratively setting & facilitating the achievement of objectives & KPI targets
- Responsibility for and management of the Group Procurement System (Medius)
- Responsibility for and management of processing supplier invoices and obtaining necessary approvals whilst maintaining accurate and complete financial records
- Responsibility for and management of the weekly payment run process, ensuring payments are made in accordance with supplier payment terms and in compliance with the necessary controls and authorisations
- Reporting & review of aging purchase ledger, clearing of debit balances, unallocated payments & any payments on hold
- Develop and publish payment statistics, KPI and other metrics
- Responsibility for the new supplier onboarding process including credit checks & bank detail verification
- Responsibility for and management of Group Travel and Expenses system (SAP Concur), ensuring compliance with T&E policy
Requirements
What are we looking for
Essential Skills:
- Extensive experience of managing an Accounts Payable team
- Extensive knowledge of accounting and management principles and accounts payable processes
- Experience of multi-currency payment runs
- Experience of modern procurement (Medius) and expenses systems (SAP Concur)
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure with good time management skills
- Confidence to suggest new ideas and listen to stakeholders' needs
Benefits
To find out more
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch.
You can also check out our career site here. Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?
