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Accounts Payable Assistant - Retail - West London

  • Location: London
  • Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 per annum
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 1 year ago

  • Sector: finance
  • Type: hybrid
  • Contact: Charley Callier
  • Contact Email: charley.callier@handle.co.uk
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Expiry Date: 20 October 2023
  • Job Ref: BBHAP200923

Do you have 1-2 years of experience working in Finance and are familiar with invoice processing?

We are looking for a permanent full-time, Accounts Payable Assistant to join a highly reputable and growing retail business based in West London. This Accounts Payable Assistant will be responsible for end-to-end payables, including invoice processing, reconciliations, payment runs and dealing with any queries.

The ideal candidate will be ambitious and confident stepping into a new role and making it their own! We are looking for someone with the gravitas to manage a busy workload whilst adhering to deadlines but not only that, someone who has the drive to lead from the front and step in to help supervise the day-to-day running of the function where necessary.

This role is hybrid - offering 2-3 days in the office every week, with the rest remote.

Key responsibilities:

  • Ensuring the accurate and timely process of supplier invoices and employee expenses

  • Obtaining invoice authorisations in line with our internal procedures

  • Supporting the BACS and manual payment run

  • Supporting with month-end cut-offs

  • Maintaining and reconciling the monthly purchase ledger accounts

  • Supplier statement reconciliation

  • Raising purchase orders and matching them against invoices

  • Setting up new supplier accounts

  • Accurate processing of factory invoices (debit and credit notes) and dealing with related queries

  • Factory invoice reconciliation

  • Additional ad-hoc tasks and project work

Key skills:

  • Ideally has 1 year+ experience working within a Finance function

  • An understanding of invoice processing

  • A good level of MS Excel (V look-ups and pivot tables)

  • Excellent communication skills

  • A team player and happy to get stuck in

Apply today!

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