Purchase Ledger Clerk

Trial Balance; Truro; Vor Ort; GBP 22.000 - 28.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Trial Balance Consulting is recruiting a Purchase Ledger Clerk on a full-time, permanent basis. The role offers hybrid working, with two days per week from home and a minimum of three days at the Truro headquarters. You will join a busy finance team handling supplier queries, invoices, VAT coding, and month-end tasks.

The ideal candidate has 6–12 months’ recent experience, AAT or vocational background, strong numeracy, and solid IT/Excel skills to support continuous process improvements.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 6–12 months of recently gained experience in a finance function.
• Highly numerate with great attention to detail.
• Sound IT skills and experience with digital accounting packages and MS Excel.

Aufgaben

• Act as initial point of contact for supplier enquiries and liaise with colleagues to resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor the purchase ledger email addresses.
• Administer the purchase order system.
• Creation and location of invoices ensuring VAT status and coding.
• Reconciliation of supplier statements.
• Ensure payment authorisation of supplier invoices.
• Assist with month end procedures.
• Assist with AP system process improvements.
• Support the Financial Controller with accounting projects.

Kenntnisse

Numerate

Attention to detail

Fast learner

Team player

Ausbildung

AAT qualification

Tools

MS Excel

Jobbeschreibung

Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have been exclusively engaged by a long standing client, a well established services business with customers located throughout the UK. The company seeks to recruit a Purchase Ledger Clerk, a full time, permanent role to be offered on a hybrid working arrangement if required - two days per week from homes and a minimum of three days based at the business headquarters in Truro.

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.