Senior Accounts Payable Assistant

At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve. If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher.

We currently have an opprotunity available for an experiences Senior Accounts Payable Assistant to join our growing team in Glasgow.

In this role, you will play a key part in a collaborative environment, where your responsibilities will include processing supplier invoices and credit notes, reconciling statements, and maintaining the company’s authorisation structure. You will ensure accuracy and compliance while thriving in a fast-paced and challenging setting.

Additionally, this role offers the unique opportunity to take ownership of the integration and centralisation of our international accounts payable processes. You will work closely with colleagues across our international locations, including Glasgow and India, to streamline operations and drive efficiency. This is an excellent chance to contribute to a global team and make a meaningful impact.

• Processing supplier invoices/credit notes and preparation of supplier and staff expenses payment runs (multi currency)
• Monitoring creditors report to ensure suppliers are paid in a timely manner
• Lead the integration and centralisation of international accounts payable processes to the Glasgow Accounting Centre.
• Directly lead a small offshore accounts payable team to deliver team objectives and resolve issues.
• Assist with maintaining the UK Authorisation Structure
• Ensuring compliance to company's internal control guidelines, e.g. authorisation, completeness, accuracy, validity
• Liaising with various departments / branch administrators to resolve invoicing issues which includes discussing solutions and proposing process improvements
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Respond to emails sent to Accounts Payable group mailbox within 24 hours
• Liaise with offshore team in India who complete accounts payable tasks and provide guidance when required;
• Analysing and preparing commentary on various suites of data.
• Responsible for accurate identification of direct debit customers via reports and bank statements ensuring payments are matched to the supplier invoices.
• Communication with other finance departments.
• Assist with supplier communications – produce letters and actively monitor/follow up.

• Experience gainied within a fast-paced Accounts Payable role
• Competent IT skills (Excel minimum); JD Edwards and Concur experience beneficial
• Skilled in prioritisation, multi-tasking, and meeting deadlines
• Proactive, detail-oriented, adaptable, with strong communication skills.
• Eligible to work in the UK

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [email protected] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.