Role: Accounts Payable Clerk

Reporting to: Senior Finance Manager

Company:

A highly successful IT MSP supporting 650+ clients across the UK specialising in Cloud, Infrastructure and security solutions. With over 25 years’ and continually growing their business, they are now currently looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Clerk to add to their existing finance team.

The successful individual:

• You will need to have experience in an Accounts Payable role.
• You will need to have exceptional attention to detail and be comfortable processing high volumes of invoices.
• Excellent communication skills are a must as you will be liaising others internally and externally to provide support and resolve issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate & timely processing of a high-volume of purchase invoices and credit card transactions.
• c. 500pcm
• Entry can be manual, duplicated for recurring invoices, or imported via Excel.
• Coding third party supplier invoices for several entities within the group. Ensuring accuracy in selecting the correct: Company, Supplier, Item/Product or General Ledger accounts, and Customer coding when costs are resold.
• Ensure all costs are properly authorised by the relevant party prior to payment.
• Ensure all supplier accounts are accurate and up to date by requesting and reconciling supplier statements on a regular basis.
• Ensure timely response to requests for further information from suppliers re: expenses or invoicing.
• Manage any escalation of queries to ensure that they are dealt with in a timely manner and be the initial escalation point internally and externally.
• Bi-monthly payment runs, including payment allocation and issuing remittances.
• Daily bank postings and reconciliation of multiple bank accounts.
• Communicate and maintain relationships with suppliers.
• Analysing and investigating aged creditors report.
• Some journal entries may be required. (e.g. Intercompany postings.)
• Processing employee expense and mileage claims.
• Maintain the finance mailbox and ensure all documentation is filed correctly.
• Request invoices for any payments on account.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

Essential:

• Previous experience in an Accounts Payable role.
• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Extensive experience of using a recognised accounting software package.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly MS Excel.
• Ability to act assertively. i.e. Not afraid to raise queries internally or externally and politely challenge colleagues or suppliers where necessary.

Highly beneficial:

• Accounting qualification. e.g. AAT.
• Experience with using Oracle NetSuite.
• Experience working in an IT MSP.