AP Specialist (1 year fixed term contract)

Monese

Monese

Estonia
Posted on Friday, September 6, 2024
Finance · Estonia · Hybrid Remote

AP Specialist (1 year fixed term contract)

At Monese, we are breaking down boundaries every day to help you build a better future.

As the digital alternative to banks, we are empowering people all over the world through our award-winning financial products – We have helped millions of customers revolutionise the way they live their lives in a global world.

We are backed by the best of the best, with over $200+m funding to date from market experts such as HSBC, Kinnevik, Investec and PayPal.

We want people with passion and dedication to help us go the distance and support our ambition to change lives.

Summary of Role:

We are looking for an AP Specialist to support our Accounts Payable (AP) function as part of the wider Finance team. You will ultimately contribute towards the financial and reporting integrity of the business, to ensure the provision of quality and current information to the Leadership Team

As AP Specialist you will work as part of the Accounting team for Monese and report to the Group Accounting Manager, under the VP Finance.

Your primary responsibility will be running the AP process for UK, Estonia and Belgium. Alongside other ad-hoc tasks and new responsibilities that will be crucial to the development of the role as the business expands.

What you’ll be doing:

Management of the AP inputs:

  • Monitoring physical mail and email inboxes for invoices, statements and other
    supplier correspondence plus internal queries, approvals, expense claims and
    debit card reports.
  • Ensuring a high level of responsiveness with respect to all correspondence,
    email or otherwise.

Processing of AP items to our accounting system, NetSuite:

  • Promptly and accurately with respect to Accounting period and date, value
    and currency, Tax and VAT accounting, General ledger (GL) account and
    departmental coding analysis.
  • Seeking timely review and approval for invoices, expense claims and debit
    card reports from those responsible in the business.
  • Accurate posting and allocation of AP-related payments, credit notes and
    discounts.

Preparing payment-runs:

  • Monitor invoice approval and “hold” status pro-actively.
  • Review aging of due-date to propose payment in relevant scheduled
    payment-runs.
  • Provide payment-run document pack with commentary for review.
  • Resolve any proposed payment issues and upload payment-run files to
    payment systems.
  • Accommodate unplanned, urgent, and one-off payments
  • Record bank transactions and reconcile multi-currency bank statements on
    NetSuite.

Contribute to the month-end process by:

  • Ensuring a prompt and precise cut-off in accordance with the accounts-close
    timeline.
  • Recording company card transactions via expense management system, Fyle.
  • Completing the month-end supplier statement reconciliation work and review
    process, clearing any errors before reporting.
  • Providing AP listings for each entity with commentary for review.

Additional and ad-hoc responsibilities:

  • Documentation of processes.
  • Facilitating the audit process (where related to AP).
  • Supporting the Group Accounting Manager with ad-hoc reporting.

What we are looking for:

  • Previous experience working in AP.
  • Good Excel skills.
  • Comfortable making connections and communicating across all parts of the
    business and with external suppliers, 3rd party advisors and auditors.

What we consider a plus:

  • Having worked in a multinational company before.
  • Experience working with NetSuite.
  • Familiar with issues relating to accounting, payroll, tax and reporting in UK (and/or Estonia and Belgium).

What benefits we offer:

  • Ample opportunity for personal growth at one of the leading tech startups in Europe
  • A flat structure with open communication where everyone has a voice
  • High degree of autonomy in a motivated and talented international team
  • A stack of modern technologies
  • Competitive salary
  • Learning and development support scheme
  • Flexible working hours and working from home
  • Working abroad
  • Enhanced sick days, voluntary day, days off for a wedding and more
  • Monese VIP account
Department
Finance
Locations
Estonia
Remote status
Hybrid Remote
Finance · Estonia · Hybrid Remote

AP Specialist (1 year fixed term contract)