Accounts Payable Administrator (12 Month FTC)
Are you passionate about delivering excellent service and keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Administrator to join our team and play a key role in supporting our Purchase to Pay process.
What you’ll do:
· Be the first point of contact: Administer the Query Desk, responding promptly and accurately to invoicing queries from colleagues and suppliers.
· Inbox management: Handle the Accounts Payable inbox, ensuring all queries are managed efficiently and professionally.
· Invoice processing: Oversee Invoice Registration, ensuring invoices are matched to Purchase Orders and correct CIS deductions are applied.
· Reconciliation: Perform supplier statement reconciliations to maintain accurate records and avoid payment delays.
· Credit notes: Process credit notes and ensure they’re correctly applied to supplier accounts.
· Continuous improvement: Assist with clearing backlogs, support system migrations, and contribute ideas for process automation and efficiency.
· Collaboration: Work closely with Procurement and Finance teams to resolve discrepancies and improve invoice processing.
· Audit support: Maintain accurate documentation and support audit and compliance activities.
What you’ll bring:
· Experience working in an Accounts Payable function within a Purchase to Pay environment.
· Great understanding of invoice processing systems (experience with Agresso or Proactis is a plus).
· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
· High attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines.
· Proficiency in Excel (including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP) and strong analytical skills.
· A customer-focused approach and a passion for raising the bar on quality and effectiveness.
· Self-motivation, flexibility, and a willingness to play a full role in the team’s success.
Why join us?
· Impact: Be part of a team that values your contribution and supports your growth.
· Collaboration: Work with friendly, professional colleagues across Finance and Procurement.
· Development: Opportunities to learn, develop new skills, and contribute to process improvements.
· Culture: Join a diverse, inclusive workplace where your ideas are welcomed.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team and help us deliver service excellence every day.
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time

The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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