Accounts Payable Assistant - Solihull
Hours
- 5 days per week from the Solihull office
- 2 days home working available once full training has been given
- Temporary, 6-month contract
The role of Accounts Payable Assistant:
- Processing and reviewing purchase ledger invoices accurately and on time to ensure suppliers are paid as per their contractual terms
- Reconciliation of supplier statements
- Working collaboratively with relevant departments to resolve queries promptly and minimise aged debt
- Tracking supplier queries and complaints and driving resolution via appropriate escalation routes (Procurement, Commercial, Finance)
- Ensuring all invoices are VAT compliant
- Performing ongoing housekeeping activities to maintain clean ledgers
- Assisting with internal and external audits, providing complete, timely, and accurate responses
- Actively supporting the sharing of new ideas and best practice
- Supporting ad hoc projects and tasks as agreed
The ideal Accounts Payable Assistant:
- Experience of purchase ledger
- Practical knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; flexibility to learn new IT systems
- Numerically accurate and confident in written and verbal communications with suppliers and subcontractors
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information
- Ability to communicate at all levels with both financial and non-financial management
- COINS experience would be beneficial
