Accounts Payable Manager
JDO Global
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Contract type: Full time
We’re looking for a grounded and detail-focused finance professional to join our Tunbridge Wells studio. If you’re someone who thrives on structure, keeps calm under pressure, and brings clarity to financial complexity, we want to hear from you.
We’re not a big finance department, and that’s exactly why you matter. You’ll be the one our teams rely on when they have questions, queries or quirks. You’ll keep us audit-ready, cost-aware and running smoothly day-to-day.
Who You Are
You’re a detail-driven, hands-on finance professional with strong systems knowledge and a calm, get-it-done mindset. You’re used to rolling up your sleeves in small, in-house teams – comfortable owning day-to-day operations while also managing higher-level month-end responsibilities. You bring clarity to complexity, confidence to others, and consistency to everything you touch. You’re someone the team can rely on – steady, sharp and quietly ambitious.
Responsibilities
Accounts & reconciliations You manage payables across global entities, overseeing invoice processing, payment runs and supplier communications. You ensure accuracy, timeliness and clarity across all accounts payable activity.
Month-end & reporting You prepare and post month-end journals for the UK, including fixed asset depreciation, accruals and prepayments. You support reporting cycles with clean, accurate and well-documented inputs.
Systems & process You manage finance records with structure and clarity. You maintain tools, lead invoice workflow improvements and ensure documentation is accurate, complete and audit-ready.
Cross-functional support You collaborate with Ops, HR and budget owners to ensure payments are managed smoothly and questions are resolved quickly. You’re calm under pressure and easy to work with.
Team leadership & mentoring You support junior team members with process clarity, daily guidance and coaching where needed. You model organisation, calm decision-making and financial accuracy.
Commercial acumen You understand how payables and month-end impact cashflow, reporting and business decisions. You keep a clear view of timelines, dependencies and priorities.
What This Role Looks Like In Practice
Accounts & reconciliations
We’re looking for someone who brings clarity, calm and consistency to finance operations and who takes pride in getting things right. If that sounds like you, please complete the application form and we’ll be in touch.
Please note: No recruiters please. Regretfully, we can't always respond to every applicant, but we do try.
We believe in equal opportunity
We embrace individuality and diversity and employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status. We invest heavily in our people and help them drive their personal development. We offer very competitive salaries, exceptional benefits and WFH flexibility.
JDO’s international team of designers, brand strategists and client service consultants band together to deliver creative excellence to the world’s most loved and influential brands.
With a scope of services that includes branding & creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation & sustainability solutions as well as experiential and campaign activation,
JDO forges brand worlds that ignite connection, provoke emotion and create belief.
At JDO, we believe…
We are an award-winning team known throughout the industry for imaginative problem-solving, innovative ideas, and absolutely stunning design. We hold ourselves and our work to the highest of standards and, in fostering a culture of collective creativity, we’re living proof that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Beyond the skillset and the mindset necessary to sustainably deliver powerful design, each member our team possesses:
Creativity Bravery
A willingness to take risks, challenge assumptions and zig when everyone else is zagging.
Individuality
A unique approach, perspective and talent that adds a different dynamic to our team.
Vision
The ability to see the potential and possibility in every project and every challenge.
JDO UK
JDO UK comprises two studios – our HQ in the beautiful historical town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the other in the heart of Central London. Though each member of our team is officially based at one of these studios, we all work together as a united front. In moving between these two locations, JDO team members benefit from a change of scenery with two beautiful office spaces, whilst also giving us the opportunity to cross pollinate ideas and collaborate to deliver our best creative potential.
We’re not a big finance department, and that’s exactly why you matter. You’ll be the one our teams rely on when they have questions, queries or quirks. You’ll keep us audit-ready, cost-aware and running smoothly day-to-day.
Who You Are
You’re a detail-driven, hands-on finance professional with strong systems knowledge and a calm, get-it-done mindset. You’re used to rolling up your sleeves in small, in-house teams – comfortable owning day-to-day operations while also managing higher-level month-end responsibilities. You bring clarity to complexity, confidence to others, and consistency to everything you touch. You’re someone the team can rely on – steady, sharp and quietly ambitious.
Responsibilities
Accounts & reconciliations You manage payables across global entities, overseeing invoice processing, payment runs and supplier communications. You ensure accuracy, timeliness and clarity across all accounts payable activity.
Month-end & reporting You prepare and post month-end journals for the UK, including fixed asset depreciation, accruals and prepayments. You support reporting cycles with clean, accurate and well-documented inputs.
Systems & process You manage finance records with structure and clarity. You maintain tools, lead invoice workflow improvements and ensure documentation is accurate, complete and audit-ready.
Cross-functional support You collaborate with Ops, HR and budget owners to ensure payments are managed smoothly and questions are resolved quickly. You’re calm under pressure and easy to work with.
Team leadership & mentoring You support junior team members with process clarity, daily guidance and coaching where needed. You model organisation, calm decision-making and financial accuracy.
Commercial acumen You understand how payables and month-end impact cashflow, reporting and business decisions. You keep a clear view of timelines, dependencies and priorities.
What This Role Looks Like In Practice
Accounts & reconciliations
- Oversee invoice coding, approvals and processing across global entities
- Ensure approval chains are compliant with policy and PO processes
- Monitor coding accuracy; investigate and correct mispostings
- Train internal teams on supplier processes and expense submissions
- Prepare and post month-end journals (accruals, prepayments, interco, FX) for UK
- Maintain up-to-date fixed asset register; manage depreciation, additions and disposals
- Review cost capture across periods and entities
- Support year-end audit by preparing documentation and confidently answering queries
- Maintain documentation standards and ensure invoice workflows are structured and up-to-date
- Identify and support implementation of improvements in processing, tools and automation
- Track performance against internal SLAs (e.g. invoice turnaround)
- Act as key point of contact for supplier and expense queries
- Liaise with Studio Ops, HR and budget holders to resolve posting and approval issues
- Provide guidance and documentation for compliance and coding consistency
- Offer day-to-day guidance to junior finance team members
- Train budget holders and Ops team on approval chains, GL codes and policy compliance
- Model accuracy, calm delivery and consistency under pressure
- Monitor spend and support variance analysis in partnership with Finance Manager
- Spot anomalies, investigate deviations and bring proactive solutions
- Flag risks and suggest smarter cost tracking methods across key accounts
- Role is based in Royal Tunbridge Wells
- Full-time (40 hours per week), with 3 days per week in the office
- Ideally have worked within a creative agency or fast-paced in-house team
- Minimum 5 years' finance experience, including 2+ years specialising in Accounts Payable
- Strong knowledge of multi-currency transactions, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and month-end procedures
- Proven track record implementing supplier processes, e.g. PO to payment workflows
- Line management or mentoring experience is a plus
We’re looking for someone who brings clarity, calm and consistency to finance operations and who takes pride in getting things right. If that sounds like you, please complete the application form and we’ll be in touch.
Please note: No recruiters please. Regretfully, we can't always respond to every applicant, but we do try.
We believe in equal opportunity
We embrace individuality and diversity and employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status. We invest heavily in our people and help them drive their personal development. We offer very competitive salaries, exceptional benefits and WFH flexibility.
JDO’s international team of designers, brand strategists and client service consultants band together to deliver creative excellence to the world’s most loved and influential brands.
With a scope of services that includes branding & creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation & sustainability solutions as well as experiential and campaign activation,
JDO forges brand worlds that ignite connection, provoke emotion and create belief.
At JDO, we believe…
- That complex problems can be smartly solved with ingenious, elegant design
- That clients are our partners in creating positive change for our communities, our culture and our planet
- That work should nurture wellbeing as well as pay our bills
- That the people you work with are as important as the brands you work on
- That diversity and inclusivity are not trends, but the future
We are an award-winning team known throughout the industry for imaginative problem-solving, innovative ideas, and absolutely stunning design. We hold ourselves and our work to the highest of standards and, in fostering a culture of collective creativity, we’re living proof that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Beyond the skillset and the mindset necessary to sustainably deliver powerful design, each member our team possesses:
Creativity Bravery
A willingness to take risks, challenge assumptions and zig when everyone else is zagging.
Individuality
A unique approach, perspective and talent that adds a different dynamic to our team.
Vision
The ability to see the potential and possibility in every project and every challenge.
JDO UK
JDO UK comprises two studios – our HQ in the beautiful historical town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the other in the heart of Central London. Though each member of our team is officially based at one of these studios, we all work together as a united front. In moving between these two locations, JDO team members benefit from a change of scenery with two beautiful office spaces, whilst also giving us the opportunity to cross pollinate ideas and collaborate to deliver our best creative potential.
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