Part time Payroll and Purchase Ledger Assistant

Trial Balance; Truro; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting are exclusive partners for a long-standing client in Truro seeking a Payroll and Purchase Ledger Administrator on a part-time basis. The role offers hybrid working with up to two days remote and a 30-hour week.

The role covers accounts payable, payroll administration, and related ledger tasks within a friendly finance team, reporting to the Finance Manager. AAT or experience with Xero is preferred.

Qualifications

• 12–18 months of general finance experience or more.
• AAT qualification or qualified by experience.
• Good IT skills and familiarity with accounting software (ideally Xero).

Responsibilities

• Accounts payable: match invoices, maintain supplier records, weekly payment runs, reconcile credit card transactions, create purchase ledger invoices.
• Maintenance of payroll records.
• Administration of new starters and leavers.
• Administration of salary adjustments, absences and holidays.
• Managing employee payroll queries.

Skills

Accounts payable

Payroll administration

Supplier records

Invoicing

Payroll queries

Education

AAT qualification

Tools

Xero

Job description

Part Time Payroll and Purchase Ledger Assistant - Truro / Hybrid - Up to: £30,000 FTE

Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have been exclusively engaged by a long-standing client based in Truro, a multifaceted services business. Due to continued expansion, the company seeks to recruit a Payroll and Purchase Ledger Administrator to join them on a part time basis. This is a permanent role working 30 hours per week (over x5 days) and the company also offers a hybrid working arrangement with up to 2 days working remotely if required (Thursday and Friday).

Reporting to an experienced Finance Manager and working as part of a small but well-established finance team, this is a broad role where the successful candidate will enjoy a wide range of duties to include:

• Accounts payable; matching invoices, setting up and maintaining supplier records, weekly payment runs, reconciliation of credit card transactions, creation of purchase ledger invoices
• Maintenance of payroll records
• Administration of new starters and leavers
• Administration of salary adjustments, absences and holiday requests
• Managing employee payroll queries

For this role we seek a candidate who possesses at least 12-18 months of general finance experience to include accurate maintenance of an accounts payable function. Candidates may be part/fully AAT qualified or qualified by experience. Good all-round IT experience and ideally (though not essentially) experience of using Xero based accounting systems. This role will work as part of an energetic and extremely friendly team that promote a fun office environment and internal career development.