Accounts Payable Assistant

Tamfol; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick pay

Pension with enhanced contributions

Death in service

Cycle to Work

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Loyalty holidays

Personal development opportunities

Job summary

Tamfol is seeking a motivated Accounts Payable Assistant to join the Finance Department at our head office in Moorgate, London, working Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm. You will ensure suppliers are paid promptly and treated with courtesy.

Key duties include logging invoices, allocating to correct supplier accounts, reconciling statements, dealing with supplier queries, and supporting month-end activities with accuracy and professionalism.

Qualifications

• Must be organised and able to work on own initiative under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• IT literate with Microsoft Office including Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Log invoices to correct locations and supplier accounts.
• Allocate credit notes to invoices and forward to managers.
• Reconcile supplier statements and ensure year-end clearance.

Skills

Organised

Communication skills

Work under pressure

Teamwork

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated, professional, and versatile individual to join the Finance Department based at our head office in Moorgate as an Accounts Payable Assistant, working Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Reporting to the Purchase Ledger Supervisor, you will be responsible for ensuring that all suppliers are paid and dealt with in an efficient and polite manner.

Other duties within the role will include:

• To log and direct all invoices to correct locations and supplier accounts.
• Allocate credit notes to correct invoices and forward to the relevant managers.
• When invoices are returned from appropriate depot, allocate to the correct nominal codes reflecting the cost code for the relevant departments whilst also ensuring all sublets have job numbers.
• Enter all items onto correct suppliers’ accounts.
• Pay suppliers and ensure they are written into the relevant cashbooks, and key onto correct supplier accounts.
• Deal with telephone/written enquiries on a daily basis.
• Chase up all depots for outstanding items.
• Deal with correspondence efficiently and immediately.
• Check purchase ledger balances with nominal ledger prior to month end close off.
• File away batch reports in batch order.
• Reconcile all suppliers’ statements to ledger and request any copies if required.
• Ensuring all items are cleared at year-end.
• Carry out variance analysis by supplier and by expense type to identify trends and anomalies.
• Any other tasks that may be required that is within your skills base.

The successful candidates will have the following qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Confident and well organised with the ability to work well on their own initiative and under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a confident telephone manner.
• IT literate with Microsoft Office Applications including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Have a full and current UK driving licence.

We offer competitive rates of pay and Company benefits including Company sick pay scheme, personal pension with enhanced contributions and death in service benefit for pension members, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced paternity and maternity benefits, EAP, loyalty holidays and excellent personal development and training opportunities.