Secretarial & Business Support
About our client:
Hasbro, Inc. is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time products and services with a rich portfolio of brands and entertainment properties that provides some of the highest quality and most recognisable play and recreational experiences in the world. The business has experienced its fifth consecutive year of growth and 2009 saw revenues in excess of $4 billion. Our newly created multi-lingual Finance Shared Service Centre will equip local European subsidiaries to further enhance customer serviceability and execute future growth plans by simplifying working practices and realising improved operating efficiency.
Description:
Working in the European Shared Service Centre the role as Accounts Payable Supervisor will encompass key accountabilities. These are:
- Accurate & timely administration of pan-European Accounts Payable (including timely processing of all invoices, timely payments, timely payment allocation to supplier invoices and maintenance of clean supplier ledgers);
- Accurate & timely administration of Affiliate month-end confirmations, reconciliations and netting payments;
- Establish work standards, schedule and ensure their effective implementation; assign work to employees; provide cover to team as and when required;
- Ensure consistency in procedures and that all written procedures are current;
- Ensure deadlines are met both at month-end and year-end;
- Scan and file invoices / credit memos from third party suppliers upon receipt;
- Process approved MM invoices using SAP 2 way-match (i.e. against purchase order) for Advertising and Promotion spend;
- Process approved FI invoices without Purchase Order;
- Review of parked invoices listing and chase invoices pending approvals;
- Review of blocked invoices and route for resolution;
- Preparation of payment proposals (suppliers, customers, consumers);
- Allocate payments against invoices in a timely basis;
- Administration of AP ledgers, review of Debit balances;
- Reconciliation of AP sub-ledgers to GL;
- Answer queries from vendors, relating to payment of invoices;
- Completion of supplier statement reconciliations to AP ledgers as required by suppliers or external auditors;
- Issue funding credits based on appropriately signed-off documentation obtained from Sales Admin
Profile:
Please only apply of you have the following:
- Fluency in both English as well as German, French, Spanish or Italian essential
- Working SAP knowledge
- Experience of having supervised a team in an Accounts Payable environment
- Good use of Microsoft Excel and Word
Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.
What's on offer
A salary up to 30,856 dependent on language skills and the following benefits
- 25 Days Paid Holiday per annum
- Core Hours of Work: 37.5 hour week for full time employees
- Flexible working hours with the opportunity for 1:00pm Friday finish
- Birthday given as an additional day holiday
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Health Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Long Term Disability Scheme
- Healthy Lifestyle Subsidy
- Childcare Vouchers
- Maternity/Paternity scheme
- Discount on admission to Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney World Florida and Tussauds Group
- Substantial Discount on Products
- Time Off for Employee Volunteering Programme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Management & Leadership Development
- Informal Dress Code
- Staff Restaurant
- Business Travel Insurance (optional)
