Payments Analyst

Job Title

Payments Analyst

At Sage, we’re all about helping businesses flow - and that starts with smooth, smart financial operations. Our European Finance Operations team keeps everything running behind the scenes, delivering excellence across Purchase to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C), and Record to Report (R2R). We’re looking for a Payments Analyst to join our P2P team, someone who’s organised, detail-driven, and passionate about getting things right.

You’ll be part of a collaborative team that supports the business end-to-end, ensuring suppliers are paid accurately and on time, relationships are nurtured, and processes keep evolving for the better. This is a full-time role which is hybrid and based 3 days a week in our Newcastle office.

What You’ll Be Doing:
No two days are quite the same. You might be processing supplier invoices one morning and working on a process improvement project that afternoon. You’ll reconcile accounts, resolve queries, and support month-end activities - all while keeping our “Payments on Time” targets on track. You’ll also help strengthen financial controls, contribute to audits, and collaborate with colleagues across Europe to make sure we’re operating efficiently and consistently.

You’ll have the chance to shape how we work too - suggesting smarter ways to handle transactions, reduce errors, and deliver even better outcomes for the business and our suppliers.

You’re organised, curious, and confident working with numbers - but you’re just as good with people. You enjoy solving problems, digging into details, and finding ways to make processes simpler and smoother. You’ll bring experience from a Purchase to Pay or Accounts Payable role, strong attention to detail, and great communication skills. You’re comfortable juggling priorities, using Microsoft Office tools, and working as part of a fast-moving, supportive team.

If you’ve worked in a shared service environment, understand P2P best practices, and speak an additional European language like Spanish (preferred), German or French, that’s a plus. What matters is your enthusiasm, adaptability, and drive to keep learning.

At Sage, you’ll join a community that believes in collaboration, continuous improvement, and doing what’s right, for our people, our customers, and our suppliers. You’ll have the space to grow, the tools to succeed, and the support of a team that celebrates progress big and small. If you’re ready to take your finance career further in a role where every detail makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

• Generous bonuses and pension scheme:
  Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top‑up by Sage.
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days
• 8 bank holiday days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy + sell
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Hybrid working
• Healthy Mind app membership
• Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing

Finance Operations

United Kingdom

Newcastle

Hybrid

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