Accounts Payable Assistant - #149579

Job Title: Accounts Payable Assistant

Location: Biopure - Havant

Location Type: On-Site

Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/

Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Accounts Payable Specialist to ensure the smooth operation of our Accounts Payable function and support the month-end close process. This role involves close collaboration with various departments to resolve invoice and payment issues efficiently.

• Maintain accurate invoice records and ensure timely processing and payment.
• Process stock and non-stock purchase invoices with three-way matching and appropriate approvals.
• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor and liaise on Open QC items and GRNI with Logistics.
• Coordinate with departments for PO creation and invoice approvals.
• Investigate and resolve supplier invoice queries, escalating when needed.
• Prepare and execute various supplier payment runs, ensuring authorisation and bank detail verification.
• Process employee expenses in line with policy.
• Support monthly GRNI reconciliation and prepare supplier aging reports.
• Ensure accurate posting of Direct Debit invoices and maintain DD records.
• Prepare and post end-of-month PL accruals.
• Process credit notes in coordination with Purchasing.
• Review and update SOPs and SLAs related to PL activities.
• Ensure compliance with G3 controls and support internal audits.
  
  

Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience in Accounts Payable or a similar finance role.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, reconciliations, and payment procedures.
• Familiarity with GRNI, QC processes, and supplier statement reconciliations.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Teams and Excel; experience with AX Dynamics is a plus.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments.
• Strong communication skills for supplier and internal liaison.
• Knowledge of internal controls and audit requirements.
  
  

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Life assurance
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan
  
  

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more
  
  

Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.