Accounts Assistant (Buying)
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Loughton
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 23 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 20 Aug 2021
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Who are we?
Founded in 1992 and with over 350 staff, Galliard is a property development, hospitality and management group overseeing mixed-use, residential, hotel and commercial projects across London, Home Counties, and the Midlands. Galliard has a GBP4.06 billion portfolio of over 5,300 homes, 153 hotel rooms, 726,000 square feet of commercial developments under construction and a further 5,200 units in planning.
With an impressive portfolio of award-winning developments, we are proud to be considered as London's leading property developer.
The Position
As an Accounts Assistant, you will be part of a busy Accounts Department and your duties interconnect with others in the accounting team. Therefore, you must be a team-player, confident in your own ability, responsible, familiar with a bought ledger environment, and able to meet challenging deadlines daily. With constant pressure on the team, the post holder performs an essential role within the department.
This role requires you to work closely with our Buying department, ensuring that invoices are correct and logged accordingly, assisting in disputes between suppliers and invoice approvers, and setting up new suppliers correctly.
You will be responsible for the following duties:
Scanning, Coding, and logging invoices onto the accounting system.
Answering telephone as first point of call for all suppliers and dealing with queries raised
Populating & maintaining Invoice Query Log
Sole point of contact to liaise with buying department to resolve purchase order queries specific to materials ordering.
Collation of proof of delivery where required to support the invoice approval process.
Requesting Invoice approvals from department heads and follow up non approval and reasons- assisting to resolve issues between approver and supplier
Reconciling and filing supplier statements
Setting up new supplier account & bank details
Collation of support for weekly Supplier/sub-contractor payments
The Person
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
Good level of analytical and numerical skills.
Able to work autonomously as well as take direction when needed.
Flexible to meet demands of the role.
Able to prioritise own workload and use own initiative to meet deadlines.
Ability to build good line of communication and professional relationships with Suppliers and subcontractors.
Experience of COINS accounting system would be desirable but not essential.
The Benefits
A competitive salary
Private health care scheme
Pension scheme
24 days holiday
Founded in 1992 and with over 350 staff, Galliard is a property development, hospitality and management group overseeing mixed-use, residential, hotel and commercial projects across London, Home Counties, and the Midlands. Galliard has a GBP4.06 billion portfolio of over 5,300 homes, 153 hotel rooms, 726,000 square feet of commercial developments under construction and a further 5,200 units in planning.
With an impressive portfolio of award-winning developments, we are proud to be considered as London's leading property developer.
The Position
As an Accounts Assistant, you will be part of a busy Accounts Department and your duties interconnect with others in the accounting team. Therefore, you must be a team-player, confident in your own ability, responsible, familiar with a bought ledger environment, and able to meet challenging deadlines daily. With constant pressure on the team, the post holder performs an essential role within the department.
This role requires you to work closely with our Buying department, ensuring that invoices are correct and logged accordingly, assisting in disputes between suppliers and invoice approvers, and setting up new suppliers correctly.
You will be responsible for the following duties:
Scanning, Coding, and logging invoices onto the accounting system.
Answering telephone as first point of call for all suppliers and dealing with queries raised
Populating & maintaining Invoice Query Log
Sole point of contact to liaise with buying department to resolve purchase order queries specific to materials ordering.
Collation of proof of delivery where required to support the invoice approval process.
Requesting Invoice approvals from department heads and follow up non approval and reasons- assisting to resolve issues between approver and supplier
Reconciling and filing supplier statements
Setting up new supplier account & bank details
Collation of support for weekly Supplier/sub-contractor payments
The Person
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
Good level of analytical and numerical skills.
Able to work autonomously as well as take direction when needed.
Flexible to meet demands of the role.
Able to prioritise own workload and use own initiative to meet deadlines.
Ability to build good line of communication and professional relationships with Suppliers and subcontractors.
Experience of COINS accounting system would be desirable but not essential.
The Benefits
A competitive salary
Private health care scheme
Pension scheme
24 days holiday