Accounts Payable Assistant

Location - Winchester

This is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract working 28 hours per week over 4 or 5 days per week (Hybrid working)

LCP is an award-winning consultancy providing advice on pensions, investments, insurance, energy, health analytics and employee benefits. We advise nearly one quarter of the FTSE250 and half of the FTSE100 firms. We are a team of over 1200 across our various offices.

We are looking for a Accounts Payable Assistant to join our Finance team based in our Winchester office and support both the Finance department and wider business with expenses, payment runs and other ad-hoc accounts support functions.

What's the role?

This is a key role working within a small team of three within the wider LCP Finance team. It's a varied role where you'll support across expenses, payments and many other ad-hoc account support tasks. You'll use your confident communication skills to liaise and build strong relationships with staff and Partners at all levels to discuss and support them on expenses and your ability to grasp new systems quickly to become a whizz on our expense system. It will also require a good attention to detail to not only ensure that the information your inputting is correct, but to assist in supporting the work of others in the team too.

What will you be doing?

• Making BACS and online payments
• Ensuring payments are processed and entries coded as per LCP guidelines
• Maintaining staff vendor list such as Bank details and e-mails for remittances
• Answering any general expense queries from staff and Partners
• Ad hoc journals in Navision (our Finance software)

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• A financial or accounting background is desirable
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good understanding of all the Microsoft Suite, particularly Excel and Teams
• A willingness to learn and try new things
• Great communication skills and the confidence to liaise with the wider business
• Any knowledge of invoicing systems and ledger systems is highly desirable

What's in it for you?

As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities
• And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility.