Yugo

Accounts Payable Controller

• Location: Bristol or Oxford
• Working Period: Full time
• Reports to: Head of Finance Operations

Key Objectives of the Role
Yugo is the trusted name for student housing, globally. Every day we connect young people to opportunities and students to amazing spaces. Here at Yugo, we like to do things differently. It's about people, planet, and passion.

Our Accounts Payable Controller will be part of a team of awesome Yugoers across the globe, they are #Futureshapers who drive their own growth and success. As an essential member of the Finance team, you will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end AP process across multiple European entities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

You will act as the primary liaison between our European business units and our offshore AP function, ensuring high performance, continuous improvement, and issue resolution. In addition, you’ll take ownership of key finance processes related to cash management and AP-related balance sheet reconciliations, contributing to the accuracy and integrity of the company’s financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Accounts Payable process for the European region, managing day-to-day operations and month-end close.
• Supervise and coordinate activities with the offshore AP team to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) are met.
• Perform and review AP-related balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Treasury team on cash management, including payment runs and cash forecasting.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders (Finance, Procurement, Operations) and external vendors.
• Own and optimize AP policies, controls, and procedures to ensure compliance and efficiency.
• Manage and monitor bank account verification checks for vendor onboarding and changes, ensuring secure and compliant payment processing.
• Resolve complex invoice and payment issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation and processes meet audit standards.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation in both onshore and offshore functions.
• Complete performance reviews for the onshore AP team, setting objectives that are aligned to the strategy of continual growth and scalability

This job description serves as a guideline, this list of responsibilities is not intended to be exhaustive and other requests commensurate with the role may be made of you from time-to-time. This role requires a degree of flexibility in terms of location, days and hours worked. From time to time, domestic and international travel and entertaining will be required as well as flexibility against acute deadlines when deals are on the line.

Key Skills & Capabilities

• Analytical Thinking – Extracts, manipulates and examines data to grasp issues, draw conclusions, and solve problems
• Managing resources – Ensures all financial data is properly calculated and reported. Allocates and controls financial resources within own area consistent with goals, priorities and budget.
• Interpersonal skills – Excellent communicator with strong verbal and written English.
• Administrative Skills – Good organisational and accounting skills; Computer literate with advanced knowledge of MS Office applications

Experience and Knowledge
Essential:

• Prior experience of running a remote Shared Service/Accounts Payable Team
• Proven experience in financial control and management
• Solid understanding of balance sheet reconciliations and cash management principles
• ERP Experience, particularly cash reconciliations with multiple currencies,
• Ability to solve technical and or operational problems and evaluate options based on relevant information, resources, well-rounded experience, and knowledge
• Strong organisational and work prioritisation skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated versatility and integrity

Desirable:

• Operated in complex environment with a Global presence.
• Oracle NetSuite experience.
• Intermediate Excel skills including Pivot tables and V lookups
• Spanish, Italian or German language skills would be an advantage.

The Yugo team is a force for good, our mission is to harness this passion to deliver an extraordinary living experience that supports the transition to and from student life