Accounts Payable Assistant - Finance - Chelmsford

Job details

Posted 10 July 2026

LocationChelmsford

Job type Permanent Full Time

Specialism Group Functions & Business Support

Reference022945

Working Hours: Normal working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm with an hour for lunch.

Location: Chelmsford

We’re Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), the UK’s leading commercial and residential real estate consultancy with over 1400 staff across 30+ offices.

We deliver the full lifecycle of property services: investment, leasing, valuation, development, asset management, and residential management. Through these services we help owners, investors and occupiers achieve their business goals. We are passionate about the work we do within the built environment, ensuring communities remain connected, while relentlessly challenging the status quo. After all, it’s our lifeblood to find new ways to solve the biggest property challenges of our time.

As part of Connells Group, the UK’s largest residential property company, owned by Skipton Building Society, we have unrivalled access to property expertise, insight, and opportunity across the country.

Responsibilities to include

• Process supplier invoices accurately and efficiently
• Process monthly supplier account statement reconciliations
• Liaise with all offices and suppliers to ensure the smooth running of function
• Process staff expenses accurately and efficiently
• Assist in the processing of weekly payment runs
• Manage all urgent payment requests
• Ensure all new supplier checks are carried out and documented inline with internal control procedures
• Ensure that all AP queries from suppliers and employees are answered promptly
• Action all daily system approval and rejections
• Assist in month end procedures
• Other ad hoc duties as required

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Experience in a similar role
• Confident, enthusiastic and flexible attitude
• Attention to detail
• Self starter with the ability to work under their own initiative
• Strong communication skills are essential in order to deal with demanding suppliers and employees
• Team player
• Good knowledge of VAT
• Good working knowledge of Excel

We understand the value that a diverse and inclusive working environment brings to Lambert Smith Hampton. We celebrate the different perspectives and insights that people can bring through their cultures and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.

We want to ensure that your application can be considered for all relevant roles across the Lambert Smith Hampton group of companies, including subsidiary and affiliate companies. We believe that this will ensure that talented people interested in developing their career with us will be considered for the widest range of opportunities that we can provide and will also receive the best candidate experience.

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