Purchase Ledger Clerk

YMCA Robin Hood Group; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization in Nottingham is seeking a Purchase Ledger Clerk for a 6-month fixed term contract. You'll process invoices, reconcile supplier accounts, and assist with payment runs while providing excellent customer service. The role offers a hybrid working model, contributing significantly to the finance team’s efficiency and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Experience processing financial transactions essential.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Outlook, and Teams required.
• Ability to manage queries from internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase ledger invoices accurately.
• Perform reconciliations of supplier accounts.
• Prepare suppliers payment runs weekly.
• Respond to finance inbox queries in a timely manner.

Skills

Experience in double entry principles

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Proficient in MS Office

Education

AAT qualification or similar

Job description

Overview

YMCA Robin Hood Group are looking for a Purchase Ledger Clerk to support our finance team for a 6 month fixed term contract. We are currently in the process of implementing a new financial system and are looking for some extra support before and after the go-live. If you have experience of processing financial transactions and are currently able to commit to a 6 month contract to start immediately we would love to hear from you! We are looking for an Accounts Assistant/Purchase Ledger Clerk on a fixed term contract to assist the finance team with the maintenance of our Purchase Ledger, to ensure accurate financial information is entered in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Purchase ledger invoice processing for all entities across the Group
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Preparation of suppliers payment runs
• You may also be able to support with: Bank Reconciliation
• Sales invoicing
• Creditor account reviews
• On a day to day basis you can expect your role to include:
  1. Accurately code and process purchase ledger invoices, ensuring validation with the purchase approval system.
  2. Perform monthly supplier account and statement reconciliations in line with established process, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
  3. Preparation of weekly payment runs, in line with established process.
  4. Manage the central finance inbox, ensuring queries and requests are responded to in a timely manner, providing an excellent customer service to our internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience and understanding of double entry principles
• AAT qualification or similar qualification
• Good attention to detail
• Have exposure to Financial processing systems
• Excellent administration and organisational skills
• Computer literate and proficient in MS Office, especially Excel, Outlook and Teams
• Disability Confident

About Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

Working at YMCA Robin Hood Group

Working for the YMCA Robin Hood Group will give you the unique mix of working for an organisation that has ambitious growth plans for the future whilst also making a huge difference to people's lives today. By being part of our organisation, you will know that your technical excellence is contributing to real change! We have offices in Nottingham City Centre (behind the Malt Cross pub which is one of our hospitality venues) and within our Community and Activity Village in Newark. The expectation would be that you work in either or both locations with 1 day working from home in line with our hybrid working policy. However, there may be times when you are required to travel to either Nottingham and Newark for meetings, events and training. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (paid for by YMCA) and registration with the DBS Update Service. We reserve the right to withdraw this role before the closing date should we be able to appoint to the role.