Accounts Payable Analyst

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My client, a leading British Insurance firm, are looking to hire an Accounts Payable Analyst to join their team on an 18-month FTC to provide maternity cover. This is a close-knit team responsible for all the processing and payment of invoices and employee expenses

Job Title: Accounts Payable Analyst
Location: London (Hybrid – 4 days in office per week)
Industry: Insurance
Duration: 18 month Fixed-Term Contract
Salary: £35,000 – £45,000

Role Responsibilities:

• Process purchase invoices, expense claims, requisitions, and payment authorisations, ensuring timely and accurate entry into the AP system.
• Maintain supplier and employee records, including onboarding/leavers, bank details, and active vendor listings within Oracle.
• Manage the AP mailbox, handling supplier queries, invoice/payment issues, and saving invoices appropriately.
• Perform reconciliations including supplier statements, credit card and petty cash spend, cash breaks, and T&E reporting.
• Execute weekly payment runs, manual payments, and AP-related journals, ensuring compliance with approval limits.
• Support system integrity through quarterly AP system testing, raising Oracle queries, and maintaining fixed asset registers.
• Contribute to month?end activities including AP close, transfer pricing tracking, and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues on ad hoc requests and play an active role in finance transformation and process-improvement projects.

Preferred background:

• Over 2 years’ experience within Accounts Payable, ideally within Financial Services.
• Good knowledge of financial controls and experience with reconciliations.
• Strong analytical and organisation skills and high attention to detail.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and influencing skills, with the confidence to build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected brand with a great internal culture. For more information, please email ben.lines@bruinfinancial.com or message Ben Lines on LinkedIn

Bruin recognises the positive value of diversity, and aims to promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. As a champion of equal opportunity employment we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services industry. Our clients work with us because they value a diverse workforce, and subscribe to our shared principle that all appointments are made on merit and that ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.