Accounts Payable Clerk

Our client, based at Meridian Business Park, is seeking to recruit a Purchase Ledger Clerk on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities will include:
1. Ensure prioritisation of documents is in line to meet company deadlines
2. Authorising payments for suppliers in various currencies including Euro's and Dollars
3. Match documents to the correct cost centre for authorisation
4. Liaise with colleagues and suppliers both by telephone and email
5. Identify and resolve invoice matching queries which include price queries as well as discrepancies
6. Processing rebates and debit notes on the system
7. Reconcile supplier statements to the purchase ledger system predominantly via Excel
8. Document, investigate, and rectify statement to ledger differences.
9. Sorting and prepping the incoming post in the purchase ledger department
10. Escalate any identified issues to the team leader/supervisor
11. Filing and sorting incoming and outgoing branch and supplier queries
12. Any ad-hoc requirements


Requirements
* You are required to have strong Microsoft Excel skills to include the use of Look-ups and pivot tables.
* Organisation & prioritisation
* Problem solving
* Good communication
* Attention to detail and accuracy
* Honesty & discretion
* Ability to understand all areas of business and the impact Purchase Ledger can have on the business.
* Team player.
* Logical, Methodical, Tenacious.
* Ability to work on own initiative.
* Positive attitude.