Overview of role
Location: Liverpool
Working within our Accounts Payable team, this role is responsible for the accurate processing of invoices and prompt payment of suppliers. The main duties include a high volume of invoice processing ensuring that all departmental and company standards are adhered to whilst handling and resolving internal and external customer queries in a professional manner.
This is a Fixed Term role for 9 months. It is hybrid working in the office 2 days a week. Salary: £27,000pa.
Benefits include:
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
* Fee onsite parking.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Simply Health scheme.
* Pension scheme.
* Onsite shop.
* Eyecare Vouchers.
* Employee Referral Scheme.
* Extra Slice discounts.
Key Accountabilities
* Process high volume of invoices, taking ownership for quantity and price queries to ensure invoices are paid to due date.
* Manage own workload and responsible for issue escalation to senior team members.
* Process all purchases (supplier invoices) and refunds (credit notes) and analysing purchases by expense type (coding invoices).
* Obtain invoice authorisation.
* Account for the correct treatment of VAT on all invoices.
* Maintain supplier master accounts by liaising with Master Data.
* Reconcile supplier accounts and resolve differences.
* Deal with supplier account queries via telephone and email and resolve queries promptly.
* Resolve significant issues (e.g., final demand letters) promptly.
* Prepare payment runs ready for review & approval.
The Right Person
* Significant experience within a large AP Department.
* Comprehensive knowledge of using an ERP System and will have mainly dealt with Invoice processing and a Purchase to Pay process using Purchase Orders.
* Have worked with invoice capture and validation tools.
* Be knowledgeable about OCR, Scanning, Storing and workflow technology.
* Have Excel skills at least to intermediate level.