Your new company
Hays Accountancy & Finance are supporting a Norwich-based organisation who are looking to strengthen their purchase ledger team, with an experienced clerk who also has at least 5 GCSEs at grades A-C, which must include Mathematics and English and ideally studying AAT 2 and the desire to work in a fast-paced finance team working a 37-hour week.
Your new role
As the Purchase Ledger Clerk / Accounts Payable Clerk, you will process purchase ledger invoices, expenses and other essential payments, ideally using Great Plains software. Therefore, you will have experience of end-to-end processing as your core details will involve as below:
*Entering invoices onto computer systems
*Matching invoices to purchase orders and querying variances.
*Checking invoices for accuracy, VAT treatment and payment terms
*Processing expense claims via an online system
*Obtaining valid internal authorisation for transactions
*Monitoring finance inbox queries and invoice printing
*Ensuring invoices are correctly coded in the general ledger.
*Arranging payment of foreign currency invoices
*Collecting, distributing and scanning post
*Creating new standing data, e.g. supplier accounts
*Updating records of standing data
*Routine accounting controls
*Extracting information from ledgers
*Processing payment runs.
*Answering queries from suppliers, customers, budget holders and auditors
What you’ll need to succeed
You will have at least 1 year’s+ experience working in a purchase ledger team, ideally processing high-volume and complex invoices across multiple cost centres, as well as being confident with AP processing systems. The role will require working alongside the wider finance team and senior stakeholders as well as dealing with supplier queries, so you must have good communication skills both written and verbal and able to manage a busy workload.
What you’ll get in return
The organisation offers a salary range of £24,000 - £27,000 depending on experience and qualification, Monday-Friday working a 37-hour week, and for more details of the benefits package, please contact Andy Jarman on
What you need to do now
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