Purchase Ledger Clerk - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Page Personnel Finance

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Our client is a successful and expanding multi-site business based in Cardiff, with turnover of £50 million and 1,400 employees.

This is an exciting time to join a growing business that is an established market leader in the sector.


Description
The key responsibilities of the Purchase Ledger Clerk include but are not limited to:

  • Input all Purchase Invoices/Credit Notes and other relevant documents to attach onto the accounting systems, ensuring their coding is accurate.
  • Issuing Purchase Invoices and Credit Notes to relevant staff for authorisation and filing them in for easy and quick reference.
  • Ensuring all invoices not paid by direct debit are ready for the weekly payment run.
  • Maintain supplier details and terms are up to date to including any passwords and user names to obtain paperwork online.
  • Dealing with invoices and other purchase ledger documents in the incoming post.
  • Ensure new suppliers are setup with correct paperwork and contracts ensuring this is attached to the Supplier's account.
  • Check VAT details for all suppliers to ensure they are VAT registered.
  • Process and check Expense and Mileage claims for employees.
  • Reconcile Supplier statements and follow up/resolve queries.
  • Identify Inter Company recharges for processing and reconciling.
  • Processing weekly supplier payment run and ensuring that all remittance notifications are sent to the correct recipients.
  • Adhoc tasks to support the Finance Team as and when they are required.

Profile

  • Have Purchase Ledger experience
  • Be thorough, with excellent attention to detail.
  • Have excellent organisational skills, able to prioritise work based on urgency and importance, and deliver work to deadlines.
  • Take ownership to make changes where required.
  • Be able to work independently and use own initiative to look for solutions, with the ability to escalate any work outside of own remit.
  • Demonstrates creativity and flair to develop new ideas that drive innovation and improvement.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly convey information and listens actively and respects the views of others.
  • Able to deal with challenge from others in a professional and constructive manner.
  • Demonstrates partnership working, able to work with others cross functionally.
  • Takes responsibility for own personal development.
  • Supports others within the team to learn and develop by sharing skills and ideas or via on the job training.
  • Able to learn quickly and adapt to changing situations.
  • Experience of working with established financial accounting systems.
  • Experience of multisite operation.
  • Minimum 5 GCSE's including English and Maths.
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