Accounts Payable Assistant

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Accounts Payable Assistant

Location: Hybrid - Marlborough one day per week (Wednesdays)

Contract: 6 months Fixed-Term

Hours: Part-time 25 hours per week

Package includes: Salary of £30,000 a year (pro rata'd), plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

Are you an experienced Accounts Payable professional looking for your next opportunity? Are you available to join our team on a 6-month fixed-term contract? We are looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join our team, supporting the day-to-day processing of supplier invoices, queries, expenses and payment activity. You’ll play an important role in keeping transactions accurate and up to date while helping the team manage a busy workload.

What you'll be doing:

• Process supplier invoices accurately through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ensuring invoices are logged, coded and routed correctly for approval.
• Manage the shared AP inbox, handling incoming supplier invoices and responding to internal and external queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Investigate invoice discrepancies, missing information and approval issues, working with colleagues across the business to resolve them efficiently.
• Support the processing of employee expenses and company credit card transactions, checking coding and ensuring records are complete.
• Help prepare payment run information and supporting documentation, making sure payments are ready to be processed accurately and on time.
• Maintain supplier records and master data, ensuring updates and amendments are completed correctly.
• Work closely with the wider finance team to provide reliable AP support and help maintain continuity during the contract period.

What we're looking for:

• Previous experience in an Accounts Payable, Purchase Ledger or similar finance processing role.
• Good understanding of invoice processing, coding, approvals and query resolution.
• Comfortable working with finance systems and able to learn new processes quickly.
• Attention to detail and a methodical approach to managing transactional finance tasks.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with suppliers and colleagues across the business.
• Able to manage a steady workload and switch between priorities such as invoices, queries, expenses and payment support.
• Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Organised and able to work well both self-managed and as part of a team.

You’ll be joining a supportive finance team with established processes, written guidance and practical support to help you settle in quickly. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys the structure of Accounts Payable work and can bring previous experience to a busy team environment.

We’re looking for someone to work 25 hours per week ideally across 5 days a week, although 4 days may be considered for the right person. Wednesday office attendance in Marlborough is essential, and due to the location, access to your own transport may be helpful depending on your commute.

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.