Purchase Ledger Assistant (12 Month Contract)

Offering £24,000 - £25,000 Basic Salary Pro Rata plus Benefits

Our client is an established manufacturing facility based in the Harrogate area. They are now recruiting a Purchase Ledger Assistant (12 month fixed term contract) to support their finance team.

Purchase Ledger Assistant – Key Responsibilities

• Oversight and monitoring of business spending and company purchases.
• Checking invoices against receipts with scrutiny to ensure that all products and/or services purchased are delivered.
• Raising purchase order numbers and dealing with invoices without these.
• Post all supplier invoices to the ledger (on Sage 200 software), ensuring they are matched to purchase orders where applicable and coded to the correct nominal ledger code and supplier account.
• Create new supplier accounts ensuring all relevant information is entered on the supplier record including the bank details for payment and payment terms.
• Preparing and processing payments via BACS or cheque.
• Awareness of how much money is owed, and to whom, at all times.
• Maintaining existing and creating new supplier accounts.
• Reconciliation of supplier statements.
• Monitoring petty cash and expenses.
• Reconciling and processing all company credit cards and checking statements.
• Handling any purchase enquiries or disputes with suppliers.
• Filing invoices and statements, keeping records of all products and services purchased with company money.
• Maintaining strong business relationships with suppliers.
• Monthly reconciliation of supplier’s statements.

Purchase Ledger Assistant – Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate will have experience of working within an accounts function.
• Experience of purchase ledger highly desirable.
• Good data inputting skills and excellent attention to detail.

The Purchase Ledger Assistant position is offering £24,000 - £25,000 basic salary pro rata plus benefits. This is a 12 month contract, working 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week – flexible working times available, to be based onsite in Harrogate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application for the position of Purchase Ledger Assistant. This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.