JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title

Senior Purchase Ledger Clerk

Accountability

Purchase Ledger Manager

Location

Colwyn House, Colchester

Overall purpose of the job

To assist in processing the company's invoices and all other Purchase Ledger related duties in line with Company and legislative requirements. Responsible for deputising for the Purchase Ledger Manager, covering holidays, sickness and specified supervisory tasks.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Contributing to the smooth running of the company's Purchase ledger and Expenses function
• Dealing with issues escalated by team
• Managing multiple mailboxes
• Using Excel spreadsheets for manipulating and importing large invoices
• Processing and payment of supplier invoices ensuring they are correctly authorised in line with company policy
• Assisting with the enforcement of the company Expenses policy
• Checking and posting employee expense claims
• Hands on checking, coding and input of high volumes of supplier invoices
• Dealing with invoice discrepancies and supplier queries
• Allocation of payments and invoices
• Ensuring completion of new supplier paperwork and authorisation for set up of new suppliers
• Supplier Statement reconciliation
• Filing, scanning and ad hoc duties as required
• Initally, this will be a working from home position

Key Skills and Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive working knowledge of Accounts Payable systems and processes
• Proficient with MS Office Applications
• Attention to detail whilst working at speed
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Genuine team player with can do attitude
• Confident, articulate and adept in obtaining / challenging information
• Strong analytical, numeracy skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Desirable

• Intermediate or advanced excel skills - lookups, formulae, pivot tables etc
• Experience with Access Dimensions accounting system