Accounts Payable Clerk

Accounts Payable Clerk

Location: Peterborough/ Hybrid

Permanent

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

The Team: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK. This role sits within our Payments team, the team are enthusiastic, motivated and a collaborative group of people, with a strong sociable team spirit.

The Role: You will be responsible for the payment of goods and services to our Suppliers, Editorial and Broadcasting content for Contributors and Talent across News UK.This is a busy role requiring someone who is personable, used to working in a fast paced environment and prides themselves on attention to detail and accuracy at all times.

Day to day you will:

• Manage all vendor changes following GDPR and bank validation processes.

• Lead the management of Risk Center including providing training and support to the business.

• Action cancelled and returned payments, liaising with the team, business and Treasury.

• Manage vendor maintenance queue in VIM.

• Take control of the vendor maintenance mailbox - ensuring queries are dealt with on a timely basis.

• Run monthly reports including debit balance and duplicate payments.

• Raise internal journals and document reversals as and when required and pass for checking and input.

• Input advances.

What we are looking for from you:

• Good excel skills and the ability to learn new systems.

• Accurate and a good attention to detail.

• Experience of working in a fast paced environment.

• SAP, VIM & OCR previous experience of using these systems would be useful but not essential.

• Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work.

• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make.

• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.