Purchase Ledger Clerk

Job Description

Our Client is a multi-channel retailor based in Manchester who are looking to bring in a purchase ledger clerk to their growing finance team.

The business operates across 7 entities and are looking for someone who is comfortable working within a busy ledger team.

Benefits:

• Team building exercises
• Training and Development
• Staff Discount across all trading entities
• Hybrid working options
• Opportunities for career development within a dynamic and growing group

Responsibilities:

•  Accurately record and process supplier invoices across seven trading entities, ensuring adherence to agreed-upon procedures and coding to the correct cost centers.
• Match purchase orders, delivery notes, and invoices for a variety of goods and services, ensuring that all discrepancies are resolved promptly.
• Maintain separate purchase ledgers for each entity, while ensuring that transactions are correctly consolidated at the group level where appropriate.
• Assist in the preparation of weekly and monthly payment runs for all entities, ensuring that suppliers are paid in a timely manner. Regularly reconcile supplier statements to the purchase ledger, addressing and resolving any discrepancies.
• Ensure invoices and expenses are coded correctly to reflect the relevant entity, department, and project.

Multi-Channel Operations

• Work with invoices from multiple sales channels (e-commerce, retail, wholesale) and ensure that costs are appropriately recorded against the relevant entity and channel.
• Liaise with the inventory and buying teams to resolve any invoice discrepancies related to stock deliveries, transfers between entities, and cost variances across the group.

Financial Reporting & Control

•  Assist the finance team in month-end and year-end processes, ensuring all ledgers are up to date, reconciled, and accurate across all entities.
• Ensure that purchase ledger transactions comply with VAT regulations and assist with VAT returns for each entity.
• Assist in preparing information for audits and ensure that documentation related to purchase transactions is readily available.

Supplier Management

• Act as the first point of contact for supplier queries, providing prompt resolution for issues related to payments, invoices, or reconciliations.
• Assist in setting up new suppliers across the group, ensuring that proper documentation and approvals are obtained.

If you are interested in this position, send your CV to danika@rsnwltd.com or cody@rsnwltd.com