Accounts Payable Assistant

Trial Balance; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on-site parking

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting is seeking an Accounts Payable Assistant for their Exeter headquarters. Circa £28,000, negotiable DOE, full-time permanent role in a small but experienced team.

You will manage supplier payments, multi-currency processing and month-end tasks, with training on a Sage-based system provided. Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will handle supplier queries, supplier account creation and daily updates to digital accounting systems, and may cover colleagues' annual leave as

Qualifications

• 12-24 months experience in a fast-paced function
• Ability to learn new platforms quickly
• Experience working as part of a team is essential
• Sage-based system training provided or willingness to learn

Responsibilities

• Assume key responsibility for the accounts payable function
• Creating new supplier accounts adhering to payment terms etc.
• Act as first line of support for supplier queries
• Process supplier payments in multiple currencies
• Assist in all month end processes
• Daily updates to the company’s digital accounting systems
• Statement reconciliations
• Matching unbalanced invoices
• Prepare VAT reports
• Ad-hoc accounting duties including covering colleagues annual leave

Skills

Sage

Organised

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Education

AAT qualification

Tools

Sage

Job description

Accounts Payable Assistant - Exeter - Circa: £28,000 Negotiable DOE

Trial Balance Consulting have been exclusively re-engaged by a long standing client, a highly successful and instantly recognisable retail focussed business located on the outskirts of Exeter. The company has tasked us with sourcing a new colleague to join their small but experienced team as an Accounts Payable Assistant. The role is offered as a full time, permanent contract to be based at the business headquarters which benefits from free on-site parking - notoriously difficult in the area!

Reporting to the company's Finance Manager and working within a small, friendly accounting function, this will be broader than usual purchase ledger role that will benefit a candidate looking increase their scope of skills and responsibilities.

Core focus of the role to include:

• Assume key responsibility for the accounts payable function
• Creating new supplier accounts adhering to payment terms etc.
• Act as first line of support for supplier queries
• Process supplier payments in multiple currencies
• Assist in all month end processes
• Daily updates to the company’s digital accounting systems
• Statement reconciliations
• Matching unbalanced invoices
• Prepare VAT reports
• Ad-hoc accounting duties including covering colleagues annual leave

For this role we're seeking an experienced, organised, and accurate AP Assistant with at least 12-24 months of recently gained experience in a fast-paced function where a good aptitude for working as part of a team essential. The company primarily uses a Sage based system where full training will be provided, but the successful candidate should possess the ability to learn new platforms quickly. This employer is happy to consider candidates that are either qualified by experience or part/fully AAT qualified.