Accounts Payable Administrator

Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: East Croydon
Hours:37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary:Competitive

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

Were a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people they make the difference. Were all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:

Role Purpose:
Responsible for providing back-office finance admin support, the Accounts Payable Administrator will ensure all overhead, property and commercial vendor payments related to all Superdrug and Savers stores are accounted for and reported correctly, supporting the brands to continue to trade efficiently and delight customers across all channels. This role reports to the AP Manager for AS Watson Health & Beauty UK.

A typical day in this role includes:
Ensuring all invoices processed in a timely manner
Proactively responding to and resolving stakeholder and supplier queries and escalating where necessary
Processing and prioritizing payments in line with payment schedule and business need
Reconciling all bank accounts and investigation to ensure cleared on a timely basis
Reconciling vendor accounts to statement and following best practice in relation to vendor balance sheet accounts
Championing finance policies, processes and procedures
Supporting the continual development of processes and procedures to improve efficiency
Ensuring accurate reporting and compliance processes are followed, including completion of all month end tasks
Regular review of supplier aging and development of action plans to resolve aged items
Interacting with a variety of stakeholders: Commercial, supply chain, procurement, property functions
Stakeholders from outside the BU: Key vendors and suppliers
Other adhoc activities as directed

This job is a good fit for you if:
Youre a real self-starter and can take initiative to deliver results for our customers
You have a passion for delivering great service to your stakeholders and have high levels of integrity
You understand the importance of your role in the team and how it impacts the customer
You are good at building strong collaborative relationships
You are comfortable challenging the status quo and sharing ideas with the team
You are excited by finding ways to improve process and making things easier for the team
You have strong attention to detail and can see the ‘big picture
You get satisfaction though finding creative solutions to issues
You see every interaction with the customer as an opportunity to brighten their day.
Discover new ways to work that put a smile on our customers and team members faces,
making every shopping experience delightful
Can be ‘The Best You using positive language and behaviours with customers and team
members
You team up with others to find solutions through Ai and thrives on the strength of working together.
You always seek out fresh ways to work through technology and/or Ai that can boost the business and move things forward
Actively develop your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs
Strengthen Human Touch - Keeping the human element strong: You balance AI efficiency with human coaching, empathy, and team cohesion

What youll need:
A quick learner who can work to a deadline
A keen eye for detail and a passion for finance
Good understanding of Excel
Experience of working in a shared service environment would be ideal
To be the voice of customers and orchestrate the organisation to live the brand purpose and inspire a customer-first culture to build customer love in every touchpoint of our Online and Offline platform
Is committed to join in, have some fun and celebrate everyones hard work
Builds great working relationships based on trust, respect and considers others needs.

Here's what's in it for you:

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)


• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend


• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online


• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station


• Company pension matching and bonus


• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it


• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK


• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!


• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes


• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support


• Come and be part of something special!

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