Purchase Ledger Clerk
- Recruiter
- Page Personnel
- Location
- City of London, London
- Salary
- £20000 - £23000 per annum
- Posted
- 08 Jul 2019
- Closes
- 18 Jul 2019
- Ref
- 14030020/001
- Contact
- Jake Pitts
- Job role
- Accounts payable/receivable
- Sector
- Retail and FMCG
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
An exciting opportunity as a Purchase Ledger Clerk based in Central London.
Client Details
My client is a leading retail company which specialises in supplying wine. A well established and growing business that is looking for a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join the business.
Description
The key responsibilities for Purchase Ledger Clerk will be:
- Sole responsibility for managing weekly payment runs and making timely and accurate payments
- Work closely with the shipments team
- Accurately post invoices into Sage200 and keep PL accounts up to date, avoiding any backlogs
- Correctly code invoices to the P&L, accruals, prepayments or capex
- Reconcile PL accounts with supplier statements on a continuous basis with aim of covering all active suppliers
- Ensure top suppliers are reconciled at month end
- Keep records of all PL activities by effective filing or scanning invoices, expense claims and supplier statements
- Work with multi-currency bank accounts and international (mainly EUR and HKD) payments
- Assist in a system change in the coming months
- Act as cover when finance colleagues are out of office
- Understand impact of payments and bank charges on cash flow and working capital
- Supervision and management of Purchase Order Administrator
- Ad-hoc reports as necessary
Profile
The succesful candidate will ideally have:
- Ideally a Finance Qualification
Excellent organisation, time management and attention to detail
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Able to create good relationships with suppliers and across functions, and deal with difficult suppliers when necessary
At least 1 years Accounts Payable experince
Positive attitude and professional manner
Interest in being part of a growing company and helping it to succeed
Operational experience of SAGE 200 and Microsoft Excel
Ability to read basic French is useful
Job Offer
A competitive salary of £23,000 + extensive benefits
Similar jobs
-
New
-
New