Purchase Ledger Clerk

Trial Balance; St. Austell; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting have been invited to source a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join a highly succesful tourism and entertainment business based in St Austell.

The opportunity is suited to a junior candidate with at least 6 months' accounting experience, seeking a long-term career within a nurturing employer. The role sits in a fast-paced, experienced AP team with clear progression paths.

Qualifications

• At least 6 months' experience in a general ledger or AP role.
• Strong MS Office skills, especially Excel.
• Good attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Act as first point of contact for supplier enquiries and liaise with colleagues to resolve.
• Create and locate invoices with VAT status and coding.
• Process supplier payments and monitor AP emails.
• Ensure payment authorisation of supplier invoices.
• Assist with month-end procedures and AP system improvements.

Skills

Accounts payable

Invoice processing

VAT knowledge

MS Excel

Job description

Trial Balance Consulting have been invited to source a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join a highly succesful tourism and entertainbusiness based in St Austell. The company has a reputation for excellent staff retention and career development, and this role works as part of a highly experienced accounting function.

The business seeks to recruit an Accounts Payable/Purchase Ledger Assistant to support their AP team. This role represents a fantastic opportunity for a junior level applicant with baseline accounting experience who seeks to develop a long term career in the sector with a nurturing employer. The positions work within a friendly and highly experienced team 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 and service centres to resolve
• Creation and location of invoices ensuring appropriate VAT status and invoice coding
• Processing credit card payments
• Monitoring accounts@ email addresses
• Ensure payment authorisation of supplier invoices
• Assisting with month end procedures
• Assisting with AP system process improvements

For this opportunity we seek an ambitious and confident applicant who possess at least 6 months of recently gained experience in a general ledger position, ideally within a high volume environment. Candidates should possess good general MS Office experience to include proficient use of Excel. This is a fast based department that will call for strong multi-tasking and exceptional internal/external communication skills and an excellent attention to detail.

This is a business that promotes internal promotion and looks to supports the development of its employees. For further details including a detailed role specification, please contact Elle Benjamin quotingEB9631.