Accounts Assistant - Purchase Ledger

Job Title: Accounts Administrator (Purchase Ledger)

A brilliant opportunity has arisen to join a city centre based company as a full time, Accounts Administrator to work specifically within the Purchase Ledger team.

Working within quite a large department, you will be working alongside a friendly team who are responsible for reconciling supplier accounts, processing supplier invoices and transactions, and providing information for payment batches efficiently & accurately.

Your key tasks as Accounts Administrator will include:

• Ensuring that Purchase Ledger transactions are processed
• Acting as the main contact point for account queries
• Managing supplier accruals to ensure accuracy
• Processing high volumes of invoices and transactions
• Preparing invoices ready for payment.
• General administration and non-routine payment processing as requested

What you will need:

• Proven previous experience of working in a fast-paced accounts environment.
• A high level of numeracy and data understanding/manipulation.
• Confident and competent user of excel to an intermediate level.
• Excellent and diplomatic telephone manner re: supplier contact point.
• Excellent IT skills, including keyboard skills and Microsoft packages.
• A self-starter with a positive, enthusiastic 'can do’ attitude and a down to earth approachable manner.
• It would be great, although not essential, if you have experience of working with foreign currencies.

In return, our client offers an excellent, modern city centre location, an appealing package and the chance to work within a warm and friendly environment. You will be working alongside a great team with a good sense of humour and a supportive and approachable line manager.

Job Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: £25K

Benefits include:

• 33 days holiday
• Healthcare benefit scheme offering you access to a range of valuable health and wellbeing services including money back schemes.
• Life Assurance
• Death in Service benefit of 4 X your basic salary from commencement of service.
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Extensive Staff Discounts

Location: York City Centre

Finance / accounts / sage / ledgers / purchase / invoicing / transactions /payment processing/ Excel / foreign currencies