Accounts Payable Senior

📍High Wycombe

Hybrid role - office working 2 days

A quick look at the role

As an Accounts Payable Senior, you'll play a key role in ensuring the efficient, accurate and compliant operation of the Accounts Payable function. You'll take ownership of supplier accounts, manage complex queries, reconcile balances and support payment activities while acting as a subject matter expert within the team.

Working closely with the Accounts Payable Team Leader, you'll provide day-to-day guidance and support to colleagues, helping to drive service excellence, maintain financial controls and deliver against key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs). You'll also provide leadership cover during periods of absence, ensuring continuity across the Accounts Payable function.

Your core responsibilities

• Take ownership of allocated supplier accounts, ensuring invoices, reconciliations and queries are managed accurately and within agreed service levels.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver excellent customer service.
• Support supplier payment activities, ensuring payments are accurate, compliant and processed in line with company controls.
• Act as deputy to the Accounts Payable Team Leader, providing day-to-day guidance, coaching and support to the wider team.
• Help monitor workloads, KPIs and SLAs, identifying risks and supporting the delivery of team objectives.
• Maintain compliance with financial controls, company policies and audit requirements, ensuring high levels of data accuracy.
• Support month-end activities, process improvements and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and service delivery.
• Contribute to onboarding, training and knowledge sharing, helping to develop capability across the Accounts Payable team.
• Our essential requirements

Our essential requirements

• Proven experience in a senior Accounts Payable role, managing supplier accounts, reconciliations and payment processes.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Accounts Payable processes, financial controls and compliance.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• A confident communicator who builds effective relationships and supports the development of others.
• High attention to detail with a proactive, customer-focused approach.

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.