Accounts Payable - Base to £35k - Flexible working
Your new company
Hays Accountancy & Finance are delighted to be partnering with a major Essex employer who are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable / Purchase Ledger who has strong interpersonal skills to join a team of 9 ledger clerks who process between 30,000 to 40,000 invoices per month. This is an exciting and challenging role working in a fast-paced finance processing team for an organisation who are constantly expanding.
Your new role
In this Accounts Payable / Purchase Ledger role, you will join the team in ensuring the high-volume and complex invoices are being processed correctly and on-time across their network of over 600 sites. This will involve checking the workflow of invoices raised, PO's having been approved, managing various in-boxes for requests, the process of payment authorisation through to reconciling the ledgers and ensuring the correct cost codes have been applied to the relevant sites for the management accounting teams to review when preparing their monthly reporting.
You will be working closely with your team to resolve any invoice or systems issues, report on any backlogs, late payments, query volumes and overall response time to suppliers and staff expenses payments.
What you'll need to succeed
You will need experience working as a purchase ledger clerk/AP, who has proven experience of working in and supporting a team as well as, processing and resolving ledger issues. You will need to be highly organised and have confident communication skills to give clear direction to your team and duties. It is expected you will have a good level of Excel and be comfortable with purchase ledger processing systems to manage the volume of transactions.
What you'll get in return
The business offers a salary between £25,000 - £35,000, depending on your experience. They offer a competitive benefit package of up to 7-weeks holiday (with their buy/sell holiday scheme) + Bank Holidays, pension matched up to 6%, access to their industry leading share-save scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave, heavily discounted product range, continued professional development and a range of flexible benefits such as GymFlex and Cycle to Work to suit your needs.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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