Job Title: Purchase Ledger Assistant
Job Location: Falmouth, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level: Entry level
Job Title: Purchase Ledger Assistant
Location: Watson Marlow - Bickland Water Road
Location Type: Hybrid
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/
When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.
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Role Summary
This role presents a fantastic opportunity to join the Falmouth Finance Team at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, which is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE 100 company.
Reporting to the Purchase Ledger Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the Purchase Ledger team with the day-to-day running of the Purchase Ledger and other related finance tasks.
What You’ll Be Doing
Ensuring supplier invoices are appropriately matched to purchase orders
Maintaining ledger accuracy and integrity, assisting in the preparation of payment runs
Carrying out monthly reconciliations and month-end reporting
Daily organisation of inbox, matching records and liaising with stakeholders
Employee expenses processing
Carrying out other ad-hoc duties necessary to ensure the smooth running of purchase ledger and banking functions
Supporting external and internal audits
Identifying and supporting with continuous improvements in process and controls
Any other ad-hoc duties as requested by line manager or Financial Controller.
Who You’ll Be Working With
You will be working within a large Finance team and working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
Previous Experience
Previous experience in Purchase Ledger, preferably in a manufacturing environment
Experience using Microsoft Dynamics AX or similar ERP systems is desirable
Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
Excellent Excel and data manipulation skills
Personal Attributes
Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Self-disciplined and efficient, with a positive, flexible and proactive nature
Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with a good attention to detail
Proven ability of working to competing priorities
Qualifications
Professional financial qualification (e.g. AAT)
At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:
* A competitive salary
* Flexible working arrangements
* A generous holiday allowance
* Three days’ paid volunteering leave
* Comprehensive private healthcare
* An enhanced retirement plan
* Life assurance
* Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:
* G ender-neutral parental leave
* 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
* Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
* Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.
Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments .
Company Overview
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.
Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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