Accounts Payable Clerk

Accounts Payable Clerk

£33,000 - £35,000 + Bonus & excellent benefits

Aila is excited to announce an exclusive partnership with a leading pharmaceutical business in Hertfordshire with the recruitment of an Accounts Payable Clerk on a permanent basis.

Our client is an international manufacturer with a c.£1bn turnover, 4,000 employees and a global presence and a range of medicines for the treatment of deficiencies, disorders, diseases as well as for critical care. They’re truly a lifesaving business.

As a business, they offer a friendly and extremely secure environment for you to thrive in with excellent benefits, including a good bonus, 6% matched pension and hybrid working with 1 day in the office each week.

This is an exciting time to join the business, and you’ll get plenty of exposure to key stakeholders and decision makers internally. As an Accounts Payable Clerk in the organisation, you will work in a close-knit team concentrating on end-to-end processing of supplier invoices, query management and payments for the UK site.

We’re looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Clerk, ideally with SAP experience, who has excellent communication skills, exposure to working in similar sized organisations and somebody who can hit the ground running.

Key Responsibilities:

• Processing supplier invoices, credit notes and manually coding of non-PO invoices
• Working with stakeholders to ensure timely approval of supplier invoices and receipting of Purchase Orders, as well being main point of contact for P2P process issue
• Prepare supplier payment runs weekly, BACS and foreign transfer payments and any ad-hoc payments
• Produce ‘Unapproved Invoice’ report used to chase departments to review PO’s or approve invoices in ERP
• Update the report with invoice status and comments
• Manage supplier invoice queries to resolution or escalate to manager
• Monitor key supplier invoices to ensure timely approval and ensure business continuity
• Manage enquiries received in the AP email inbox
• Review GRNI receipts, matching receipts to supplier invoice
• Reconcile Supplier Statements ensuring missing invoices are requested and credit balances investigated/refunded
• Maintain changes/set up supplier bank account information ensuring best practice is followed during the verification process

To be successful in this role, you will be an experienced Accounts Payable Clerk that is comfortable working autonomously with excellent communication skills.

Aila is a specialist finance recruitment business that was established with a modern vision of what a recruitment partner should be. With a genuine goal to provide the best jobs to the best people, we operate as an extended arm of our client’s business and a career coach for our candidates ongoing development.

Apply now for more information on this role. If you’re looking to make a move but this role is different to what you’re looking for, get in contact with us today and start a partnership with a finance agency that puts you first.