AMS Accounts Payable and Administration Assistant

Salary and benefits: Circa £25k
Reporting to: AMS Financial Operations Manager
Direct reports: None
Location: Home based with occasional travel into London

Who you’d be working with…

The Advantage Travel Partnership is the UK’s pre-eminent business network representing travel agents and travel management companies.

Its members are all independently owned travel businesses who operate across 750 locations throughout the UK, representing a large proportion of the UK’s travel agency landscape. In addition, Advantage’s global network footprint continues to expand with representation in 83 countries across 96 network partners who work together in servicing corporate accounts.

Collectively, as a global network our members generate over £15.6 billion in global sales annually - with £7.6 billion from travel sales from its UK membership - and cater for many millions of holidaymakers and business travellers by assisting them with their travel arrangements.

What you would be doing…

This is an amazing opportunity to join a fantastic company at a very exciting time.  You, as AMS Accounts Payable and Administration Assistant, would report to our highly skilled AMS Financial Operations Manager and work alongside fourteen other friendly AMS Administrator professionals. The whole team works closely together and is also tightly connected with the whole business, our member partners and business partners.  This will give you the great opportunity to both bounce ideas off and learn from each other.

The overall purpose of your job is for the back-office administration, bank reconciliation & processing of Supplier payments for our rapidly expanding and market leading managed services division, Advantage Managed Services (AMS).

To do this, you would…

• Process Supplier Payments
• BACS, CHAPS and SEPA bank transfers
• Conduct general back-office administration duties
• Liaise with Travel Suppliers
• Adhoc Finance duties

To be successful in this role, you would have experience of…

• Building relationships with business partners/suppliers by phone & email
• Experience of Vertical Systems Tarsc back office (ideal)
• Working with Sage or similar accounting product (ideal, but not essential)
• Work within a Finance Department and be specialised in Accounts Payable
• Processing bank reconciliations (not essential)
• Processing large quantities of bank transfers
• Using MS Excel (intermediate level, knowledge of formulas)

And be…

• An excellent team player
• Well versed in member engagement
• A great communicator verbally and written
• Exceptional with attention to detail
• Able to work independently with a level of autonomy
• Naturally enthusiastic and committed
• Able to organise workload to deliver Operational Excellence
• Knowledgeable and aware of the business & products
• Able to adapt and work flexibly
• Interested in your own self-development

What you get in return...

You want to apply?  Excellent.  Here’s how…

It's easy. All you need to do is send us your up-to-date CV. Send all details and questions to [email protected].

Due to not having a sponsorship license, we can only accept applications from people within the UK who can prove their right to work.

At Advantage, we embrace the diversity of culture, gender, physical capability and thought. We firmly believe that true innovation cannot happen without this real-life variety in our working community. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people of all walks of life aspire to work.