Accounts Payable Specialist (Aerospace)

Location: Leicester, UK

Company

Crane Aerospace & Electronics operates in the aerospace and electronics industry.

What you will do

• Review, validate, code, and process high volumes of vendor invoices using two-way and three-way matching.
• Manage invoice workflow queues, follow up on approvals and held invoices, and resolve pricing, quantity, and information discrepancies.
• Prepare and review ERP payment proposals and support weekly and ad-hoc BACS, wire, and manual payment runs.
• Respond to vendor inquiries, maintain vendor relationships, and reconcile vendor statements and payment exceptions.
• Support AP ageing and accrual reporting, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and audit requests.
• Identify process improvements and support automation and efficiency initiatives across accounts payable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of accounts payable or related experience.
• Strong understanding of the accounts payable cycle, invoice matching, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Experience with ERP systems and invoice processing tools.
• Strong SAP experience in the FI/AP module, with exposure to Ariba or a similar procure-to-pay platform.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, data reconciliation, and large-dataset analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a high-volume, multi-priority accounts payable environment.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Supply Chain, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to compliance, internal controls, process strengthening, and efficiency improvements.