Accounts Payable Assistant
- east midlands, england, United Kingdom
- Contract·Hybrid
- Full time
Job Description
At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you motivated by impactful work? Do you have a passion for Accounts and participating in process improvement projects? If so, then a career with STERIS in our Finance team could be a great fit for you.
About Us
At STERIS we are a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. Our mission is to help our customers create a healthier and safer world. Working at STERIS, you GROW, LEARN and MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
We are currently recruiting for an Accounts Payable Assistant vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join us at a skilled level in a division that drives the business forwards
Working Pattern
- Mon-Fri, 0800 - 1630 (Flexible working hours available) (40 hours per week)
- Hybrid working 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
- 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
What You Will Do
The Accounts Payable Assistant will assist in all processes within the Accounts Payable function facilitating payments to suppliers and maintaining accurate ledgers within Oracle.
General
- Maintain good relationships with suppliers and understand the process for purchases requiring a purchase order and Non-PO.
- Achieve KPI performance measures where applicable.
- Extract data required for SOX and Audit and liaise with internal and external auditors where necessary as well as maintain a log of all items over 60 days with reasons for non-payment.
- GRNI Maintenance.
- Prepayment allocation and maintenance.
Inputting and query resolution
- Input invoices onto the financial accounting system in Oracle and maintain correct coding of invoices working with sites and accountants.
- Understand the blanket PO process, and ensure invoice queries are dealt with promptly (including queries to site Administrators as required).
- Reconcile supplier statements to supplier ledger accounts as well as investigate and resolve invoices (known as the ‘on-hold’ report).
- Audit expense claims, validate supporting documentation as well as process expense claims.
Master data
- Undertake all actions to enable the set up of any new suppliers and or action requested supplier changes to be processed within a set SLA.
- Undertake all requested master data analysis to create “clean and efficient” master data files.


