Accounts Payable Manager, Audio Network

• Knowledge / Experience / Qualifications:
• 5+ years of relevant AP management experience within Finance
• Experience working with multicurrency
• SAP Business One and Concur systems experience
• Intermediate working knowledge of Excel, Outlook, and other relevant Microsoft Office applications
• Able to meet tight timeframes and be highly organized
• Previous experience working for an international business is preferred
• Experience in managing and training team members
• Key Competencies and Personal Qualities:
• Strong and effective communicator (at senior management level, with colleagues, and external stakeholders)
• Strong skills in leading tasks, taking initiative, and providing solutions where needed
• Independently minded and able to challenge when appropriate
• High energy level, personal robustness, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Resilience; a positive outlook. Flexible and able to adapt to changing demands. Thrives on a challenge
• High integrity and honesty. Commitment to excellence and continuous improvement
• Great attention to detail

• The key areas of responsibility include:
• Manage and oversee the preparation of bi-weekly multicurrency payment runs ensuring correct purchase order and invoice approvals in the expense management system, completing 1st review of payment details to ensure appropriate and accurate support in line with the company expense policy
• Prepare and review AP aged creditors report monthly to ensure payments are allocated and direct debits have corresponding invoices vouched against them
• Prepare accruals for corporate company credit cards at month-end and act as a corporate card administrator for the UK entity
• Monitor AP inbox to ensure internal and external queries are resolved in a timely manner
• Working with AP Assistant to ensure supplier reconciliation are completed monthly
• Collaborating with Publishing, process bi-annual composer royalty payments timely
• Responsible for managing relationships with the expense software service provider used for processing purchase orders, vendor invoices, and employee expense claims
• Act as a super user for the expense software, deliver user training and support
• Assist parent company with various ad-hoc queries and reporting requests
• Liaise with external auditors and provide necessary supporting documents for audit
• Prepare supporting information for annual PSA filings and process tax payments accurately and on time supporting the senior finance team
• Direct oversight and management responsibility over AP Assistant
• Responsible for the second approval of vendor invoices in the expense software and confirming correct expense coding
• Working with local finance, support implementation of the expense management system in territories where the software is not fully utilized
• Responsible for monitoring expense software API to SAP integration to ensure it is working as expected
• Responsible for preparing and maintaining current AP policies and procedures including alignment with parent company where necessary
• Regularly review and update the expense policy and ensure company compliance with established policy to support and maintain a culture of financial discipline to drive savings
• Maintain current approval matrix for vendor invoices and employee expenses and review periodically to ensure it stays current and in line with internal control policies
• Support and maintain a culture of financial discipline to drive savings
• Prepare bank reconciliations for the selected UK entities for multi-currency bank accounts at month-end
• Responsible for being a bank administrator for the UK entity bank accounts

• Working Hours 🕓 - Our standard working hours are 37.5 hours per week
• Holiday Entitlement ✈🏝 - We give 25 days for all staff + Bank Holidays. Although its non-contractual we have a Winter Break where the office closes from 25th December to the 1st January – the best bit, it’s not taken out of your annual leave entitlement, so everyone can recharge. We'll encourage you to take more time off if you're slacking on holiday time taken!
• Summer Hours 🥇🌝 - On Fridays, a non-contractual benefit - From June to early September on every Friday, providing nothing pressing work-wise you can finish at 1pm and don’t need to make the time up. What better way to spend a summers afternoon relaxing with friends, family or just chill’n!
• Hybrid working 🏡 – Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are mandatory and we are all in the office – it’s important for collaboration, networking, and banter. The rest of the time you can work from home, so that work and life play nicely!
• Healthcare via Vitality 🤒🧘‍♂️ – All employees join from day one (you can opt out). You can add a partner or children at your own cost. Employee membership to Vitality comes with lots of great benefits with a suite of wellness initiatives for day-to-day zest! including a subsidised gym, discounted spa breaks, & cinema tickets. It’s a points-based system, so the more active you are the more choices you’ll have!
• Pension Scheme 💸 - Our scheme is with AVIVA. All employees are auto enrolled and contribute 4.5%, we match up to 5%
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) ❤️‍🩹🥲 - Available to all staff. A confidential resource to help people plan for and deal with whatever is difficult in their lives, either personal, professional, or home/work life, health, or general wellbeing
• Bonus Scheme 💷💰 - We offer a discretionary annual bonus scheme based on how well the company is performing and your individual performance.
• Maternity Pay 👶 - We offer 12 weeks full pay, and 12 weeks half pay, after that its statutory – eligibility after one year of service
• Paternity Pay 🧸 - We offer 4 weeks full pay
• Eye Care Vouchers 🤓 🤩 - Via Specsavers, you’ll get one voucher per year for a free eye test and money off glasses for VDU use
• Death in Service 🌟 - Via Canada Life. Permanent staff are covered for 3X their annual base salary and are part of the scheme within the first month of starting
• Volunteering Days 🎀 - If you have a chosen charity, we offer 2 paid days per year. It’s a great way of giving back to the community
• Socials, Events & Treats 🥳 🍎- We love a get together, team socials and drinks on Thursday’s, you also find fresh fruit and treats in the kitchen
• Listening Sessions 🎸 🎼 - Our fantastic, world-class new music is showcased every month
• GROW 🗣 - Workshops, talks, guest speakers, lunch & learn to celebrate events such as Pride, International Women’s Day and Black History month and many more. Lots of great resources to help build an equal and inclusive workplace for all
• Mentor/Mentee programme 👨‍🎓 – It’s been developed with you in mind, and a great way to help our colleagues enhance career opportunities. It’s a partnership between two individuals’ mentor and mentee where the mentee is provided with guidance, advice and feedback from their mentor

Total funding: $1.3m

In its two decades since launch, Audio Network has grown into a major name in the production music industry. The company produces original music for use in TV, Film and video, which can licensed directly from its platform.