Accounts and Purchasing Administrator

AFR Consulting; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

On-site parking

Pension

Job summary

AFR Consulting in Blackburn is recruiting for an Accounts and Purchasing Administrator to join our client in a varied finance role. The position combines accounting tasks with purchasing activity and project support, offering exposure to procurement and cost-saving initiatives.

You will handle purchase and sales ledgers, credit control and routine management reporting, while coordinating stock and supplier relationships to ensure continuity of supply.

Responsibilities

• Purchase ledger duties including processing invoices and supplier queries
• Sales ledger duties, ensuring records are accurate and up to date
• Credit control including chasing due and over customer accounts
• Support routine finance reporting and month-end tasks as required by the Finance Manager
• Coordinate requirements for products across the business, ensuring continuity of supply and appropriate stock availability
• Negotiate prices and commercial terms with suppliers; evaluate and select suppliers considering price, quality, reliability and delivery
• Make purchasing decisions independently within agreed financial authority limits, escalating commitments beyond those limits for approval
• Maintain effective supplier relationships, monitor performance and identify opportunities for cost savings and improved purchasing efficiency
• Maintain stock integrity, plan and implement stock takes
• Coordinate projects arising from strategic development requirements and risks or opportunities identified across departments
• Organise project plans, actions, responsibilities and timelines, following up with colleagues and external partners to maintain progress

Job description

Our client, a manufacturing and distribution company based in Blackburn, are currently recruiting for an Accounts and Purchasing Administrator. This varied role will have three important parts, accounting, purchasing and project support.

Duties include:

• Purchase ledger duties including processing high volumes of invoices and dealing with any supplier queries
• Sales ledger duties, ensuring records are accurate and up to date.
• Credit control including chasing due and over customer accounts
• Support routine finance reporting and month-end tasks as required by the Finance Manager.
• Coordinate requirements for products across the business, ensuring continuity of supply and appropriate stock availability.
• Negotiate prices and commercial terms with suppliers; evaluate and select suppliers considering price, quality, reliability and delivery.
• Make purchasing decisions independently within agreed financial authority limits, escalating commitments beyond those limits for approval.
• Maintain effective supplier relationships, monitor performance and identify opportunities for cost savings and improved purchasing efficiency.
• Maintain stock integrity, plan and implement stock takes
• Coordinate projects arising from strategic development requirements and risks or opportunities identified across departments.
• Organise project plans, actions, responsibilities and timelines, following up with colleagues and external partners to maintain progress.

If you are naturally organized, used to working within a varied and fast paced role and have good experience within finance and administration, this could be the role for you. You need to be a good communicator, be able to multitask and be able to work to tight timescales.

In return you will receive a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus banks, free on site parking and good pension.