Accounts Payable Clerk - Belfast, United Kingdom - Spence & Partners Limited

Spence & Partners Limited

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Belfast, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Us:

3173 is a privately owned UK firm of pensions experts with clients throughout the UK, serviced from offices in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds.

The 3173 Group of companies includes Dalriada Trustees Limited (Dalriada) one of the UK's largest professional pension scheme trustee companies.

Spence & Partners provides full pension actuarial, consulting, investment consulting and administration services that provide simply smarter solutions for trustees, employers and members and Mantle:
reimagines the traditional models of defined benefit pensions administration and actuarial valuation software.

Our Culture

Our primary aim is to provide interesting, worthwhile and healthy careers for all our people; we believe that this emphasis sets us apart from our competitors.

We are defined by our ethos and by our goal:

Our ethos is an individual and collective commitment achieved through carefully balancing responsibility with freedom and flexibility, all of which is underpinned by a willingness to work interdependently.

When we get this balance right, it is how we do our best work.

We look after our staff first and foremost, but for a commercial purpose, which is to deliver great service profitably.

By focusing on our goal, we provide the best outcomes for pension scheme members, trustees, and employers.

About You:

We are hiring an Accounts Payable Clerk who wants to work within a busy commercial finance environment and is looking for the opportunity work for a growing and award-winning organisation.

You will be given the opportunity to manage your own workload, and you will have a keen drive to learn.

You will thrive in a collaborative, fast moving team-based environment and be able to work collaboratively as part of the wider Finance team.

You will be a diligent and driven individual with a high level of attention to detail. Someone who is confident, thorough and conscientious will do well in this role.

You will be an innovative thinker and prepared to work in a flexible environment which seeks out opportunity and improvement.

Behavioural competencies expected for the role include:

Highly organised individual
Flexible to new ideas and ways of accomplishing tasks & problem solving
Excellent attention to detail
Strong numeracy skills
Strong communication skills

Responsibilities & Criteria:

This role within our Finance Department will support our group of businesses across the UK.

TThis role will report to a Financial Accountant, and you will have responsibility for the following:

Responsibility for the supplier cost allocation and reconciliation of supplier ledgers to statements
Identification and monitoring of 3rd party costs to be recharged to clients
Management of supplier relationships, including liaising with suppliers and relevant colleagues, resolving queries and weekly payments.
Making outbound calls to customers in line with company procedure to discuss accounts and arrange payment
Taking inbound calls and dealing with customer queries with the ultimate goal of obtaining payment
Completing new supplier set up process
Reporting of supplier costs against budget on a quarterly basis.
Supporting monthly financial reporting & annual financial statement audits.
Oversee processing of employee expenses inline with company policy.
Maintain & update fixed asset register
Participate in weekly and monthly meetings with the team to deliver reporting results
Assisting with purchase ledger month end
Any other relevant purchase ledger duties or administration duties as and when require

Minimum (essential) requirements:

Good academic record at GCSE level.
Proven working experience within a busy Accounts Payable environment as an accounts payable clerk or accounting technician.
Good written and verbal English communication skills.
Experienced in the use of Microsoft Excel and other MS Office packages.
Practical experience in the use of accounting software.
Good understanding of basic accounting principles. Proven ability to calculate, post and manage financial transactions.
Good data entry skills with a demonstrated aptitude for numbers.
Strong customer service orientation and attention to detail
We all work in teams here in a proven ability to succeed whilst working as part of a team.
Highly flexible, including willingness to work flexible hours at peak times.
High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

Circumstances

Location:
Belfast (Hybrid Model)

Working hours:
Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours (or 5 days per week) with additional hours as and when required.