About Hachette UK

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 11 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

This fast-moving role sits within the Hachette UK AP Team, part of the Hachette UK Group Finance team, serving the wider Hachette UK Group.

As an AP Supervisor for Hachette UK, you will be a key part of our AP Management Team, dealing with a variety of activities, ranging from line management, active participation in the AP leadership group, making sure supplier invoices are processed correctly, ensuring suppliers records are accurate and up to date, working with a colleagues across the business to resolve supplier invoice issues, and ensuring our various suppliers large and small are paid correctly and on-time.

If you have a strong attention to detail, enjoy a fast-paced, collaborative and dynamic environment, and want to work in a Team which values inclusivity and togetherness, then this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Line management of AP team members - effectively lead, train and mentor, assign tasks, monitor workloads, ensure adherence to deadlines, conduct performance reviews and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
• Participation in the AP Management Team - actively contributing to wider AP management team, who oversee the full AP process cycle at Hachette (invoice capture, work cycle processing, payments, vendor mastering, reconciliations & reporting).
• Workflow processing - use automated workflows to successfully resolve invoice issues with various stakeholders across the business.
• Supplier data - maintain master data and manage communications with suppliers regarding invoices, payments, bank details and issues.
• Reporting - preparation of reports related to accounts payable activities, including outstanding invoices and cash flow forecasts.
• Reconciliation - reconcile supplier accounts and resolve ledger issues to ensure supplier data is up to date.
• Support - collaborate with colleagues across the finance function to ensure proper coding of expenses and compliance with budgetary guidelines.

• 2+ years of experience in an AP role essential. Ideally in a faced paced environment.
• Prior supervisory experience in any role desirable.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and AP processes essential.
• Experience with process automation tools and workflow systems desirable.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, etc.) and MS Office, especially Excel.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

The role will be based at our Didcot office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.