Temporary Purchase Ledger - #2101561

Temporary Purchase Ledger

Hybrid Working (3 days office / 2 days home)
Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Up to 3-Month Duration (with potential to extend)
£14.50 - £15 per hour
Immediate Start Available

Our client is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Purchase Ledger to join their finance team on a short-term basis.

This role is ideal for someone with previous accounts or finance administration experience who enjoys working with high volumes of data, has strong reconciliation skills, and is confident using Excel.

• Processing supplier invoices accurately and efficiently into the accounting system.
• Managing purchase ledger activities and maintaining supplier accounts.
• Performing daily, weekly, fortnightly and monthly reconciliations.
• Investigating and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Reconciling high-volume fuel supplier invoices and matching transactions against system records.
• Daily reconciliation of multiple bank accounts, including:
  • Supplier payments
  • Customer refunds
  • Expense claims
  • Credit card receipts
  • Payment allocations
• Monitoring stock movements and maintaining stock spreadsheets using supplier notifications and accounting records.
• Posting stock invoices and ensuring all entries reconcile back to the accounting system.
• Liaising with fuel suppliers and internal departments to resolve account queries.
• Assisting with the management of finance inboxes and distributing correspondence appropriately.
• Processing supplier credit notes and customer credit notes.
• Ensuring correct VAT treatment and coding of invoices to the appropriate cost centres.
• Processing journals relating to daily cash movements.
• Identifying missed transactions and communicating issues to the relevant departments.

• Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant, Purchase Ledger or Finance Assistant role.
• Strong reconciliation experience.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including working with large volumes of data.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and confidence dealing with suppliers.
• A proactive approach and ability to manage deadlines.
• Strong IT skills and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

• Experience within a high-volume transactional environment.
• Experience working with stock reconciliation processes.

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