Accounts Payable Manager

Accounts Payable Manager

Up To £40k 

Fixed Term up to 6 Months

Lamington Group is a pioneering property and hospitality company based in the UK, best known for its room2 hometel brand. We also operate a range of co-working concepts (MissionWorks); Serviced Apartments (Lamington Serviced Apartments) and real-estate interests. As a certified B-Corp, we focus on long-term value creation, place-making, and working with like-minded stakeholders to redefine sustainable hospitality 

Our business model is vertically integrated, giving us full control over the development, ownership, and operation of our aparthotels. This enables us to innovate rapidly, deliver high-quality guest experiences, and maintain brand integrity as we scale at pace.

Purpose of the role 

Project based opportunity to assist with legacy invoices and payment allocation across all business units (multiple trading statements / companies) in excess of 10.

The role will entail obtaining statements, reconciliations of supplier accounts and investigating variances and ensuring all missing invoices are booked and allocated accordingly.  The aim of this project will be to bring the Aged Payables up to date and ensure all discrepancies are documented with action plans for resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the wider team in the day to day finance operations

• Provide front line support to colleagues and third parties, via email and telephone

• Project based ‘tidy up’ of high volume data to support new system integration 

• Investigate and reconcile aged invoices recorded and ensure applicable in the right business unit

• Reconcile payments (across multiple sites) and ensure missing invoices pertaining to the payment are booked and allocated accordingly, and investigate unallocated variances

• Ensure the portals are updated on the master file for invoice retrieval 

• Bring the Trade Creditors up to date (for all business units)

• Maintain a tracker of discrepancies and action plans on Monday.com

• Maintain Lamington Group’s B-Corp status by supporting with audits and ensuring processes continue to develop in line with B-Corp principles

Experience

• A proven track record of accounts payable processes, accounting principles, and financial controls in a multi brand company

• Expertise with Sun and Q&A is a must

• Multi-site experience is a must

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is essential

• The ability to analyse financial data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement.

• An analytical mindset to investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies, payment issues, and other challenges.

• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy 

• Manage multiple priorities, handle a high volume of work, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with both external vendors and internal departments.