Accounts Payable / Purchase Ledger

£25500 / year

About Candidate

Education/Qualification

  • 2008 – BA Honours in Accounting and Finance
  • 2006 – A Levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Accounting

Systems used

  • Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
  • Sage Line 50
  • Internal Systems

Career Summary

Most Recent Employer – Housing Cooperative (T/O £14.4Million)

Position – Finance Assistant – Accounts Payable

Dates – November 2024 – April 2026

  • Working in a team of 3 – reporting to Accounts Payable Manager
  • Preparation of sundry payments and rent refunds as authorised by the business
  • Match / processes 50+ invoices daily valuing £5 – £15,000
  • Purchase ledger transactional processing, including responding to internal and external enquiries from colleagues and suppliers via email and telephone
  • Reconciliation of purchase ledger accounts on a weekly basis
  • Reconcile about 10 supplier statements on a weekly basis
  • Moving invoices to relevant person / department for coding / raising a PO
  • Matching invoices so they are ready for payment runs on a weekly basis
  • Dealt with / resolve general queries regarding invoices / payments
  • Auditing /updating Invoices / sundries / payment runs

Previous Employer – Building Management // T/O £29.7 m

Position – Accounts Payable (Temporary)

Dates – September 2024 – November 2024

Previous Employer – Real Estate // £23.1 M

Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk (Temporary)

Dates – August 2024 – August 2024

Previous Employer – Facilities // T/O £2.2576 bn

Position – Accounts Payable Assistant (Temporary)

Dates – April 2024 – July 2024

Previous Employer – Online Retailer // T/O £790.3 m

Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk 

Dates – October 2021 – March 2024

  • Worked in a Team of 15 and reported to Accounts Payable Manager
  • Processed high volumes of invoices to payment
  • Worked with different currencies GBP / USD
  • End to end management of allocated suppliers to ensure invoices were paid on time
  • Deal with supplier / internal complaints efficiently
  • Raised appropriate documentation and sending to suppliers
  • Reconciled supplier statements on a weekly basis
  • Resolved queries in a timely fashion, following internal procedures
  • Supported colleagues with tasks where necessary
  • Build good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Ad-hoc tasks as requested by senior management

Previous Employer – Other Business Support Service

Position – Finance / Payroll Assistant

Dates – July 2019 – December 2020

Previous Employer – Airline/Inflight Catering // T/O £575.307m

Position – Invoice processing clerk

Dates – April 2019 – June 2019 (Temporary)

Previous Employer – Property Group // T/O £3.9694 bn

Position – Accounts Payable Administrator

Dates – March 2017 – November 2017 (Temporary)