Accounts Payable Specialist

Overview

Waters, the world's leading specialty measurement company that cares about inclusion and diversity, is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist to support the very successful growth of our businesses across EMEA. Waters deliver benefits through innovation and people that enable customer success in the life, materials, and food sciences. People build the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce, we continuously evolve, develop, and improve our products. We strive to deliver innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. Our talented field sales/service and specialist teams have, over the years, delivered excellent and balanced business results. With a constant focus on growth and by developing new markets, we can increase business even within very challenging economic circumstances.

The Accounts Payable Specialist role requires you to serve as a trusted Business Partner to our business management team to increase organizational efficiency and to encourage high performance culture. Our Accounts Payable Functional team is a very professional yet comfortable group to work in. You will be able to utilize your expertise in various strategic projects and to implement them with the constant support from the team. If you are keen to become part of a winning team and believe that your knowledge and experience would make an excellent contribution to our organization, we are keen to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Accounts Payable processing for Waters EMEA entities in Ariba and SAP
• Manage daily exceptions in Ariba
• Process fixed assets invoices.
• Inter-company invoice processing
• Answer vendor queries.
• General ledger account analysis
• Process payments on a weekly basis.
• Accounts Payable Project work
• Process Vendor Master creations / maintenance.
• Invoice processing and query handling.
• Support any updates & reviews of tax changes
• Other Ad-Hoc reporting and administrative duties as required.

Qualifications

Education: Degree or equivalent experience in Finance Administration.

Experience:

• 2+ years' experience in accounts payable, accounting or procure to pay role
• Proficient in SAP
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for data analysis, including VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and conditional formatting.
• Strong time management and organizational skills with an ability to prioritize workload and multitask several activities at the same time.

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days' holidays, excellent family-friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters aligns with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Client-provided location(s): Macclesfield, United Kingdom

Job ID: Waters-24516

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-12T18:51:57