Purchase Ledger Clerk – Part Time

We are recruiting a Part-Time Purchase Ledger Clerk on behalf of a well-known manufacturing organisation that has been established in Leicester for nearly 130 years.

The successful candidate will work as part of a small, friendly and industrious team and will report into the Finance Manager. This will be an office-based role, but my client is flexible on hours / days that the successful candidate would want to work.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Preparation of payment runs for review and processing (multiple currencies / banking systems)
• Obtain authorisation on invoices from production / purchasing departments
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Record and analyse carrier postage costs for allocation across business units prior to posting
• Customer and client supplier query resolution
• Dealing with financial paperwork and filing

Skills and experience required:

• Previous experience of high volume and UK / overseas purchase ledger
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience of using accounting software packages (Navision desirable)
• Strong excel skills (pivot tables and VLOOKUP’s desirable)

Hours:

• 30 hours per week, over four or five days per week

Salary and benefits:

• £25,000 pro-rata
• 24 days plus bank holidays pro rata, four days to be used at Christmas
• Life assurance – £40,000
• Company discounts
• Statutory pension