Accounts Payable Assistant

Orka Financial is working with a well established business based in Uxbridge (hybrid) to recruit an Accounts Payable Assistant who will join their finance team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Receiving supplier invoices and rejecting/returning invoices that do not state a valid purchase order number.
• Log and scan of all supplier invoices and staff expenses received.
• To check, match and close purchase orders.
• To post invoices to the purchase ledger and costing systems.
• Generate a proposed payment List on a weekly basis.
• Producing remittance advices and making payment to all purchase ledger suppliers via the BACS system.
• Post cash payments to the purchase ledger & update the cashbook.
• Deal with all Supplier queries and manage these through to resolution.
• Chase suppliers for credit notes where appropriate.
• Track down all unapproved invoices so that only genuine queries are carried forward.
• Review & validate older outstanding purchase orders.
• Reconcile Supplier Statements on a Monthly basis.
• Reconcile Inter Group Accounts each month, produce month end Creditor Lists and Turnover Reports together with various ad-hoc information.
• Undertake the month end closing procedure for the Purchase Ledger.
• Set up New Supplier accounts after approval.
• Post cost transfers between works orders.
• Support the Finance Team in Ad-hoc tasks when needed.

Required skills:

• Previous experience within Purchase Ledger.
• Customer focused and understanding the AP function.

Salary £25,000-£28,000 dependent upon experience