Purchase Ledger

Purchase Ledger / Finance Assistant

(Reporting to Finance Controller)

My client is a UK leading distributor in their field, and they are looking for an experienced Purchase Ledger / Finance Assistant to join the established accounts team.

Location: Office-based at Butterfield Business Park, Luton, LU2 8DL

Hours: 8.30am - 5.00pm

Salary: £27k plus company bonus scheme

Benefits

• Life Assurance - 2 x salary

• Starting on 22 days holiday increasing with service
• Birthday Day Off
• Workplace pension scheme
• Access to EAP (employee assistance programme)
• Access to Simply Health cash back scheme
• Brand-new modern workspace
• Free on-site parking

Key duties and Responsibilities

• Matching, checking, processing of Purchase Invoices and credit notes.
• Controlling any invoices in query
• Making supplier payments via BACS and processing supplier payments
• Scanning invoices onto ERP system
• Month end processing and producing reports as reporting deadlines.
• Completing Vat payments and returns
• Processing company credit cards and staff expenses
• Posting daily bank transactions and direct /debits transactions
• Assisting in weekly group reports providing key data
• Setting up new suppliers and checking approvals
• Month end reconciliations and maintaining group balance sheet reconciliation model.
• Liaison with suppliers. other departments and finance team
• Daily bank reconciliations
• Assisting in year end and internal audits providing transactional data
• Assisting FC /FD on queries
• Assisting and supporting credit control and sales ledger activity as required

Candidate Profile

• Extensive purchase ledger experience and experience of payments and bank transactions

• Experience of 3-way matching using integrated ERP systems

• Other experience in Finance roles would be advantageous such as sales ledger, credit control and general ledger.
• Good experience of ERP systems and proficient in use of Microsoft Excel and Word
• Good reconciliation experience in particular supplier reconciliations