Accounts Payable Manager

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Accounts Payable Manager to join our Finance team. You will play a crucial role in helping towards the smooth running of the Accounts Payable (AP) function, leveraging your knowledge and experience as we continue on our journey towards automating AP. We’re looking for someone with strong initiative, a collaborative approach, and the ability to transparently communicate with various colleagues at all levels. As this is a leadership position, we’re seeking someone who thrives when mentoring and inspiring clerks that you will supervise. 

You will report to the Accounting Senior Manager, collaborating with other members of the wider Finance team, and working cross-functionally across the organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, global organisation at the forefront of drug discovery.

In this role, you will

• Own the UK Accounts Payable function, supervising and mentoring AP colleagues to ensure accuracy of supplier invoices, entries and payments across the team.
• Proactively identify and address key areas for process improvement, streamlining and simplifying workload to ensure efficiency within the function.
• Manage and optimise the use of our accounts payable system (Coupa) in the UK, including implementing new features, improving and automating processes, and ensuring data integrity, particularly ahead of month end close.
• Produce and present month end reporting relative to team KPIs.
• Have overall responsibility for vendor management, including ownership of the AP mailbox and phone line.
• Liaise with Group Auditors to provide them with timely and accurate information upon request. 

The Team You’ll Join

The Accounts Payable team is a fun group who collaborate closely to ensure that all transactions are processed in a timely and accurate manner and align with audited financial statements. In your role as Accounts Payable Manager, you will lead the UK Accounts Payable team, reporting into the Group Accounting Supervisor as part of the wider Group Finance function. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• 5+ years of professional, hands-on experience managing accounts payable and credit card expenses; previous experience in an AP Manager position is preferred.  
• Strong experience building and using AP systems and operational excellence within them; prior experience with either Coupa, NetSuite, Jaggaer or Microsoft NAV will be helpful in this role.
• Ability to confidently produce month end reporting in line with team KPIs.
• Experience in managing employee expenses. Prior experience with Concur will be helpful in this role.  Experience in vetting new vendors for set up in an ERP system.
• Passion for financial work, with a proactive approach to tasks and ability to work to tight deadlines. Confidence to work independently whilst also operating as part of a global Finance team. Additionally, great communication skills are essential to thrive in this role.
• Experience in a pharmatech, tech or life sciences environment is preferred, but not essential.

Working Location:

This position is ideally based at one of our offices located in Oxford, UK. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.

The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.