Job Title:
Accounts Payable Assistant
Reporting to:
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Salary:
TBC
Place of work:
Knutsford, Cheshire Hybrid
Job Purpose:
To reconcile carrier invoices, manage queries, check rates and ready consignments for customer billing. Ensure all carrier invoices are paid on time and accurately. Checking paperwork for cost, bank details, VAT registrations etc.
Main Responsibilities and Objectives:
1. Monitoring multiple mailboxes.
2. Creating and verifying new supplier accounts.
3. Verifying suppliers' bank detail changes.
4. High volume query resolution.
5. Reconcile carrier invoices to rate cards.
6. Manage queries.
7. Manage credit notes.
8. Reconciling supplier statements.
9. Carrying out payment run checks.
10. Assisting with weekly and monthly payment runs.
11. Ownership of ad-hoc payment runs.
12. Maintaining creditors ledger.
13. Analysis of multi-system data.
14. Ad-hoc requests and support.
Statutory Duties:
1. Co-operate with your employer to enable any legal obligations to be complied with.
2. Do not recklessly interfere with anything provided by the employer or others in the interests of health, safety, or welfare.
3. Bring to the attention of the Company Health and Safety Manager any perceived shortcomings in health and safety arrangements, situations or processes that you consider to be serious or which may present danger to you or others.
4. Do not undertake or request others to undertake any works for which you/they do not hold the required competency or authority to undertake.
Interfaces:
Internal:
* Liaise with finance manager, Accounts Supervisor, Heads of Department, their direct reports and employees at all levels within the company, compliance to statutory and internal reporting requirements and Company objectives.
* Franchisees.
* Franchise Development Managers.
External:
* Suppliers.
* Factoring companies.
* Software developers/providers.
Qualifications:
Core:
IT literate including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Written, oral English and Mathematics to GCSE standard.
Desirable:
* Awareness of relevant legislation.
Experience:
* Strong AP background.
* Microsoft Dynamics.
* Microsoft Excel.
Performance Management Responsibilities:
The areas of responsibilities and objectives (above) are to be monitored via the appraisal process and internal meetings.
Technical Skills:
* Query resolution.
* Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
* Ability to adapt to new systems and processes quickly.
Business Skills:
* Professional and confident manner.
* Prioritize & work to strict deadlines.
* Excellent communicator.
* Ability to work within a team and under own initiative.
* Good organizational skills.
* Ability to work well under pressure.
* Good literacy and numeracy skills.
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