Purchase Ledger Specialist — Precision & Impact

Morson Praxis; Culcheth; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Grosvenor Power, part of the Morson Group, is seeking a diligent Purchase Ledger Clerk to support high-volume supplier invoices and payments, based between Warrington and Manchester offices. You’ll collaborate with finance and commercial teams to maintain accurate ledgers and robust controls on projects across power and oil sectors.

Key duties include three-way matching, coding to job codes, and preparing weekly payment runs while ensuring timely authorisation and compliant supplier relations.

Qualifications

• Previous Purchase Ledger or Accounts Payable experience.
• Strong understanding of purchase ledger processes.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good organisational skills and strong numerical ability.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Good communication skills.
• Competent in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience using accounting software.

Responsibilities

• Processing high volumes of supplier invoices accurately and promptly.
• Matching purchase invoices to purchase orders and delivery notes (three-way matching).
• Coding invoices to the correct nominal ledger and project/job codes.
• Resolving invoice discrepancies with suppliers and internal departments.
• Maintaining supplier statements and reconciling supplier accounts.
• Ensuring all invoices receive appropriate authorisation before payment, and processing employee expense claims where required.
• Preparing weekly and monthly payment runs, processing BACS, CHAPS and Faster Payments.
• Ensuring payments are made within agreed supplier terms and liaising with suppliers on payment queries.
• Setting up and maintaining supplier bank details in accordance with company controls.
• Investigating and resolving aged creditor balances, and monitoring outstanding invoices and credit notes.
• Assisting with month-end accruals for unprocessed invoices and maintaining a clean purchase ledger with minimal aged items.
• Allocating costs to the correct contracts and projects, ensuring subcontractor and material invoices are coded correctly.
• Verifying CIS information where applicable and assisting commercial teams with supplier cost queries.
• Monitoring project expenditure against purchase commitments.
• Assisting with month-end close activities, producing purchase ledger reports and supporting preparation of management accounts.
• Maintaining supplier records, opening new supplier accounts and assisting auditors with supplier information at year-end

Skills

Purchase Ledger

Accounts Payable

Three-way matching

Excel proficiency

Numerical ability

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Access Dimensions

Job description

Grosvenor Power, part of the Morson Group, is seeking a diligent Purchase Ledger Clerk to support high-volume supplier invoices and payments, based between Warrington and Manchester offices. You’ll collaborate with finance and commercial teams to maintain accurate ledgers and robust controls on projects across power and oil sectors.

Key duties include three-way matching, coding to job codes, and preparing weekly payment runs while ensuring timely authorisation and compliant supplier relations.