Purchase Ledger Clerk

Ward Hadaway; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension

25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing benefits

Hybrid working

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Ward Hadaway is seeking an experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk to join the busy Finance team in Newcastle for a 12-month period. You will manage accounts payable, process supplier invoices, reconcile statements and ensure timely payments.

Reporting to the Accounts Manager, you will work in a fast-paced finance environment, with hybrid working options and a supportive culture focused on wellbeing and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and good all-round IT skills.
• A flexible approach to work.
• The ability to work well within a team and to prioritise work & meet service delivery requirements.

Responsibilities

• Process internal expenses through the internal workflow system.
• Prepare and import supplier and expenses payment runs into banking systems.
• Set up new supplier accounts and maintain existing account details.
• Reconcile supplier statements.
• Upload and process firm credit card transactions.
• Monitor the shared accounts staff mailbox.
• Assist with queries both internally and externally.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

MS Office

Flexibility

Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We're looking an experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our busy Finance team in Newcastle, initially for a period of 12 months. If you'd like to play a vital role in a fast-paced, high-impact finance environment, then our Finance team could be for you. Reporting to our Accounts Manager, you'll manage our accounts payable by efficiently processing supplier invoices, reconciling statements, and ensuring accurate and timely payments.

What will I be doing?

• Processing internal expenses through our internal workflow system.
• Preparing and importing supplier and expenses payment runs into the banking systems.
• Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details.
• Reconciliation of supplier statements.
• Firm credit card uploading, distributing and processing.
• Monitoring of the shared accounts staff mailbox.
• Assisting with queries both internally and externally.

You’ll have

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and good all-round IT skills.
• A flexible approach to work.
• The ability to work well within a team and to prioritise work & meet service delivery requirements.

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and well being benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 3 days per week working from the Newcastle office.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.