Accounts Payable Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Goodman Masson

Goodman Masson
Goodman Masson
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

ROLE TITLE:
Project Accounts Payable


REPORTS TO:
Accounts Payable Manager


Location:
London

**6 month contract
Offering £30 - 33,000**Join one of the leading fast food restaurants, focused on Japanese and East Asian inspired food.

ROLE PURPOSE
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Accounts Assistant to work within our Support Office.

As the business grows rapidly this is an exciting and challenging time for the Finance team, and the company as a whole.

This role will involve working on two AP projects: 1) clearing back logs on vendor ledger accounts and 2) weekly BACS payment run projects.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**- Clearing old aged balances across the vendor ledger

  • Communicating with stores, vendors, and staff to resolve discrepancies between goods receipted and invoices received
  • Ensuring invoices received from suppliers meet the required format as per our supplier manual and communicating required improvements to suppliers
  • Account Management dealing with internal and external queries and maintaining supplier database
  • Obtaining the necessary approval to write off balances from ledgers
  • Reconciliation of accounts balances to supplier statements
  • Ensuring relevant items have been received at the branches and requesting the relevant invoices / credit notes for any missing or returned items
  • Filing invoices and statements individually for each supplier
  • Allocating supplier payments
  • Other ad hoc tasks or financial reports required by the Accounts Payable Manager
  • Obtaining bank details from all active vendors and preparing schedules for the AP Manager to allow uploads to our master data.

THE CANDIDATE

  • Previous experience within an accounts payable function
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Dynamic Nav and Continia desirable
  • A competent user of Microsoft Excel
  • Experience of having cleared significant back logs and seeing projects through to completion
  • Experience gained across a number of companies that do not have perfect systems and processes in place
  • Experience of working in a high invoice multisite / FMCG environment
  • A positive and resilient person who is up for a challenge
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Ability to meet deadlines

Requirements:

You must have relevant experience in a similar role

  • In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you._
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