Purchase Ledger/accounts Assistant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Kingdom Recruitment

Kingdom Recruitment

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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Purchase Ledger Accounts Assistant

Location:
Denton

Department:
Finance

Employment Type:
Permanent

Full Time 40 Hours a Week / Monday to Friday

About You

Our style and approach will reflect our values and behaviours; you will be committed to continually provide service excellence to our stakeholders, always aim to improve as our business never stands still, work as one team in playing your part to get it right and create a positive environment as our people thrive.

About the Role

We are looking for a self-motivated and eager finance individual willing to coordinate and process all aspects of financial administration, including the improvement of processes.

To support and work closely with the Credit Controllers and collaborate with the wider finance team.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

Key Tasks:

Scan and electronically file finance documents within ADM system
Matching, batching and coding of supplier invoices
Process supplier invoices in a timely manner
Check and process employee expense claims
Reconciliation of monthly supplier statements
Prepare and process supplier payments in accordance with approval policy
Manage petty cash
Assist with month end journals and general ledger reconciliations
Posting to the sales ledger the Bacs, card and web payments
Bank reconciliation
Setting up supplier accounts and updating existing records
General finance administration duties.
Contributing towards the continuous development of systems and controls relating to purchase ledger function.
Shadowing established company Accounts Assistants.
Weekly Cashflow forecasting
ESG Reporting

Additional tasks for holiday cover:

Post and process cash, cheques and credit card payments onto Accounting system
Allocate credit notes and cash receipts timely to customer accounts
Incoming calls lunch/holiday cover for the credit controllers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

Possess a good eye for detail
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
Ability to multitask, prioritise a busy workload and use initiative
Able to show a willingness to learn about the business
Strong numerical and analytical skills, confident with all types of data
Good communicator
Proactive and driven

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL

Work experience/educational requirements

Previous experience with Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger
At least 2 years' experience within a fastpaced finance team
Strong focus on systems and MS Office is a major requirement (particularly MS Excel)
A level education with demonstrable academic success
Professionally qualified is preferable but not essential

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£24,000.00 per year

Benefits: