Purchase Ledger Specialist - Hybrid Finance Role

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday including bankholidays

Health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise

Job summary

Activate Group is seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Finance team in a hybrid Halifax-based role. You will support the Purchase Ledger and transactional finance activities, ensuring accuracy and adherence to policies, controls and SLAs while building strong stakeholder relationships.

You will handle supplier reconciliations, data entry, and payment allocations, and contribute to continual improvements within the finance function.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and effective communication.
• Familiarity with transactional finance processes and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Manage high volume transactional processing with accuracy.
• Reconcile supplier and repairer statements to ledgers; investigate variances.
• Resolve supplier queries via EMS and dedicated phone lines.
• Prepare, submit and allocate supplier payments on banking platform.
• Create and maintain supplier and repairer accounts per procedures.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve processes and service delivery.
• Maintain accurate financial records to support controls and audits.
• Support month-end activities to meet SLAs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Work under pressure

Problem solving

Effective communication

Deadline driven

Education

AAT Level 2+

Tools

Sage 200

Excel

Job description

Activate Group is seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Finance team in a hybrid Halifax-based role. You will support the Purchase Ledger and transactional finance activities, ensuring accuracy and adherence to policies, controls and SLAs while building strong stakeholder relationships.

You will handle supplier reconciliations, data entry, and payment allocations, and contribute to continual improvements within the finance function.