Accounts Payable Clerk

Hybrid

Purpose of role:

To ensure that, purchase ledger invoices are recorded in United Response’s accounting system in an efficient, accurate and timely way, and to take particular responsibility for accurate completion of Bacs run and month-end accruals.

You will be working with: Accounts Payable

Your manager will be: Finance Team Manager

3 months fixed term.

Responsibilities and duties

• To take responsibility for ensuring that suppliers invoices, and expenses are correctly coded and approved.

• Set up and maintain new supplier accounts ensuring the appropriate authorisations and confirmation of bank details are received

• Maintaining the AP outlook inbox and ensure all queries are dealt with effectively and efficiently

• To take responsibility for reconciling supplier statements

• To carry out accurate BACS runs for the payment of invoices and expenses, ensuring all payments are post and allocated to supplier accounts.

• Support with Month accruals and month end

• Ad-hoc tasks

• Support the Finance Team Manager

To fulfil this role you need:

• AAT (or equivalent) standard of education, including GCSE maths
• Knowledge of principles of double-entry bookkeeping

• Good level of IT literacy, with a good knowledge of Microsoft Excel

• A minimum of two years’ experience working within a Finance, purchase ledger role including the use of a computerised accounts package
• Ability to work meticulously and accurately in handling large quantities of accounting data
• Ability to work on own initiative with minimal supervision
• Well organised and able to prioritise work effectively
• Ability to resolve internal and external queries
• Customer focused
• Have a can do attitude