Purchase Ledger Clerk

Trial Balance; Redruth; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading services business in Redruth is looking for a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join their finance team. This full-time position involves handling supplier enquiries, managing invoices, and improving AP processes. Candidates should possess recent finance experience and strong IT skills to thrive in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 6-12 months experience in a finance function.
• Part or fully AAT qualified or equivalent vocational experience.
• Comfortable with technology and digital tools.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with suppliers and resolve discrepancies.
• Administer purchase orders and invoices.
• Assist with month end procedures.

Skills

Numeracy

Attention to detail

IT skills

Digital accounting packages

MS Excel

Education

AAT qualification or vocational experience

Job description

Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have been exclusively engaged by a long standing client, a very well established services business operating throughout the UK. The company seeks to recruit a Purchase Ledger Clerk, a full time, permanent role to be based at the business headquarters on outskirts of Redruth.

The position works as part of a friendly and highly experienced finance function that operate in a fast-paced environment. Core responsibilities to include:

- Act as an initial point of contact for supplier enquiries and liaise with colleagues across all remits to resolve discrepancies

- Monitor the accounts payable email addresses

- Administer the purchase order system

- Creation and location of invoices ensuring appropriate VAT status and invoice coding

- Reconciliation of supplier statements

- Ensure payment authorisation of supplier invoices

- Assisting with month end procedures

- Assisting with AP system process improvements

- Assist the Financial Controller with ongoing accounting projects

For this role we seek a candidate with a minimum of 6-12 months of recently gained experience, ideally gained within a modern finance function. Candidate’s may be part or fully AAT, or consider themselves to have suitable vocational experience. Applicants should be highly numerate with great attention to details, and be quick to learn and develop new skills. The business is technology driven so sound IT skills also essential with previous experience using digital accounting packages and/or MS Excel highly beneficial.

For further details of this opportunity, please contact Dan Saunders without delay quoting reference DS9757 ASAP.