Job Purpose
To deliver an efficient and accurate purchase and sales ledger function, supporting the wider finance team and ensuring strong financial controls.
Key Performance Indicators
· Achieving high invoice accuracy rate across sales and purchase ledger
· Reducing aged debt/ improved debtor days though effective credit control
· Processing high volume of invoices
· Resolve invoice and supplier queries within agreed timeframes
· Consistently meet month end deadlines
Key Accountabilities
· To administer the company’s purchase ledger function, including:
o Raise and process sales invoices and credit notes, ensuring accuracy (pricing, VAT, currency and customer requirements)
o Manage Credit Control process, ensure timely collection of outstanding debt
o Post and allocate customer receipts, including multi-currency transitions
o Daily Bank Reconciliations
o Process high volume purchase invoices, matching to purchase orders and delivery notes
o Supplier statement reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
o Prepare and process payment runs
o Set up and maintain customer and supplier accounts
o Handle customer and supplier queries, maintaining strong working relationships
o Process expenses and petty cash reconciliations
o Supporting month end process
o Ensure compliance with VAT regulations and internal financial controls
o Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of VAT legislation relevant to the sales ledger function, particularly regarding the company’s activities ( e.g. Printed Matter, Postage, Exports, etc.)
o Support wider finance team with ad-hoc duties and process improvements
Skills / Knowledge
- IT literate including Excel (lookups/sumif/pivot tables), Sage200 would be advantageous but not essential as would any knowledge of Tharsterns.
- Flexibility, by the nature of the job and the relatively small size of the department, a good degree of flexibility is requested as a matter of course.
Pay: £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
