Commissions and Purchase Ledger Administrator

Overall Role Purpose

We are offering a varied finance role ideal for an agile individual who has a passion for becoming part of a large, dynamic Finance team. Based in Northampton, we provide valuable support to the Business Leaders of Grant Thornton enabling the Firm to monitor its results and to achieve its strategy for growth.

You must be an independent thinker who looks for opportunities, loves challenges and believes what you do matters. You will have real responsibility from the outset, the Firm is a shared enterprise, sharing ideas, responsibility and reward.

The role will provide support to the Purchase Ledger Team and the Commission Team through the accurate data entry of purchase invoices and commissions received statements to include the preparation of month end reconciliations.Job Description:

Main responsibilities

Operations

• Ensure appropriate controls and authorisation policies are adhered to
• Regular reconciliation of supplier statements and investigation of discrepancies
• Assisting with BACS payment runs in line with agreed supplier credit limits
• Collating and authorising employee expenses, ensuring appropriate approvals and receipts are attached. Investigate anomalies.
• Support the team in the maintenance of the Commissions ledger
• Accurate data entry of the commission statements to the on-line portal
• Prepare and reconcile the commission ledger schedules
• Monitoring unmatched cash and unallocated income
• Manage your workflow to ensure tasks are completed on time and monthly timetables are adhered to
• Undertake administrative tasks such as post distribution and filing as necessary
• Management and distribution of internal email addresses
• P/L filing
• Assisting with other admin duties such as scanning
• Assisting with the inputting o purchase invoices
• Assist with other adhoc purchase ledger and commission projects

Clients

?? Ensure an excellent standard of support is provided to internal / external clients and the team

?? Liaise with providers and suppliers to retrieve commission statements and purchase invoices

?? Recognises and safeguards all confidential matters and issues

?? Actively lives the firm's values and behaviours

?? Build relationships with key clients

People

?? Identifies and actions opportunities for personal and professional development

?? Responsible for ensuring own performance review forms are completed on time, and that a personal training plan is in place

?? Required to communicate all concerns upwards in a timely fashion and communicate with other departments

Markets

?? Completes work set by and meets timetable deadlines accordingly

?? Deals with ad-hoc requests with minimal disruption to workflow

?? Adheres to the procedures, best practice and templates relevant to the role

?? Keeps up to date with news and business world to understand what is influencing the firm

?? Acts as an "ambassador" of the firm, working in line with the firm's CLEARR values

?? Understands the firm's strategy