Purchase Ledger Clerk

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Bradford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing company in Bradford is seeking an experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their finance team. The role involves managing invoice queries, processing payments, and ensuring accuracy in financial documentation. Ideal candidates should have over 2 years of Accounts Payable experience and strong analytical skills. This position offers free on-site parking and an opportunity to join a supportive finance team.

Benefits

Free on-site parking

Opportunity to join an industry leader

Supportive finance team

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a finance or accounting role.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience in finance audit rules is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage and resolve invoice queries.
• Act as the first point of contact for vendors.
• Reconcile statements and investigate discrepancies.
• Maintain accounting control procedures.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

Attention to detail

High-volume input

Microsoft Office

Analytical skills

Job description

Sewell Wallis is currently working with a rapidly growing company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, that is looking for an experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their finance team.

This Purchase Ledger Clerk role would be perfect for someone wanting to develop their skills within Accounts Payable and work with a really experienced finance team.

What will you be doing?

• Managing, processing and resolving invoice queries.
• Acting as the first point of contact to vendors for questions, support and issues around invoicing and payment inquiries.
• Manage invoices, including monitoring the invoice approval queues and working with Finance for coding on invoices that get sent manually.
• Working across multiple entities and currencies to process large volumes of invoices with accuracy.
• Reconciling statements and investigating any discrepancies, through to resolution.
• As a Purchase Ledger Clerk, you will be working on reducing debit balances and cleansing accounts to keep the ledgers current and maintained
• Maintain & support accounting and accounting control procedures.

What skills are we looking for?

• 2+ years of Accounts Payable/accounting/finance experience in a general office environment, demonstrating a general knowledge of accounting systems.
• Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
• Experience working in a high-volume input role
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of working within finance and audit rules and regulations is highly advantageous.

What's on offer?

• Free on-site parking
• Opportunity to join an industry leader
• Join a warm and personable finance team

For more information, contact Suliman or apply below.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.