Purchase Ledger Clerk - Carlisle, United Kingdom - Mercer Ritchie Ltd

Mercer Ritchie Ltd

Verified Company

Carlisle, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Purchase Ledger Clerk

Location:
Carlisle

Full time, to start ASAP.

Salary: 24k to 25k.

Applicants require excellent IT skills, competent in Microsoft Office and open to being taught new software packages.

An experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk, who is a team player and can also use their own initiative to work productively unsupervised.

Ideally a minimum of 12 months recent experience working in a similar role, be personable and empathetic to our client's needs.

Confidential manner, excellent communication skills and be able to manage a varied and busy workload.

Working as part of the Administrative team you will be expected to undertake general office duties in an organized manner, including but not limited to:

Processing invoices from a database of suppliers
Ensuring suppliers are paid to agreed payment dates
Working to individually agreed targets, ensuring accuracy and consistency is upheld
Reconciling data from multiple sources, ensuring that debit balances and unapproved invoices are kept at a minimum, and that all volumes are reviewed for efficiency and accuracy.
Supplier statement reconciliations requesting copy invoices as required
Responding to supplier queries promptly and efficiently to ensure resolution and therefore no delays to supplier payment dates
Managing the Purchase Ledger reporting outputs
Supporting the Purchase Ledger Month End close processes, including accrual calculations and postings
Monthly reconciliation of accounts payable to general ledger investigating, reporting on and resolving any discrepancies or queries encountered as required.
Ensure constant and effective communication with the team, wider business, and external stakeholders is maintained to ensure efficiency
Data entry on internal and external software
Administering helpdesk queries
Updating client job tracking portals

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