JHE & Partners are delighted to be working exclusively with a local, Bradford manufacturer who are looking for an accounts payable clerk on a temporary-to-permanent basis - 6 months then permanent. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and established business in a newly created role. The role is working in a small finance function, where the chosen candidate which oversee the ledger in its entirety, supporting the finance manager and management accountant, adding real value to the process.
The chosen candidate must have excellent accounts payable experience, ideally with a manufacturing background. The role is to take responsibility for the ledger on an end-to-end basis, adhering to processes and reporting in line with KPIs.
Duties include:
- Daily supplier invoice processing, uploading to system and coding approved invoices to post to the ledger
- Uploading supplier invoices to the shared document centre and assigning an approver
- Work closely with the business to ensure invoices are authorised on a timely basis, following up on any invoice disputes so these are actioned and resolved promptly.
- Prepare and process weekly payment runs, ensuring timely payment of supplier invoices according to agreed terms, in line with cashflow forecast.
- Reconciliation of supplier statements, resolving any discrepancies
- Daily monitoring of the accounts email inbox, ensuring queries are responded to promptly
- Supplier account maintenance including but not limited to, allocation of payments, requesting VAT invoices where payments are on account to clear down balances, resolution of account balance discrepancies
- Processing of company credit card transactions, ensuring all credit card statements have been completed fully and correctly in a timely manner.
- Opening new supplier accounts on our system with all necessary details completed in full
This is an exciting opportunity, working with a very supportive, knowledgeable and friendly team. The business is family-run and values its employees; therefore, staff retention is extremely high.
Salary on offer will pay the equivalent of £28,000 on an hourly basis before going permanent. Holidays are 25 + 8 bank with extra day off for birthday. Hours are 37.5 per week, with earlier Friday finish. There is the option for one day working from home, with the possibility of this extending to 2 in the next 6 months.