Accounts Payable Assistant

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Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Accounts Payable Assistant and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role:

This Accounts Payable Assistant role is an excellent opportunity for someone with a good range of knowledge and experience in purchase ledger or someone looking to step into finance.  The Accounts Payable Assistant will gain exposure to a wide array of responsibilities and tasks. You will provide an excellent service to our Suppliers, Branch and Support Centre network whilst ensuring suppliers are paid in line with negotiated terms thus making certain that the supply of goods and services are never suspended.  

Key Responsibilities

• General Administration
• Data Entry - Processing invoices and credits onto the accounts payable system in line with department procedures
• Supplier details and payment information to be accurately maintained
• Prompt analysis of supplier queries, including supplier statement reconciliations to assist management in agreeing the appropriate corrective action
• Document, investigate, and rectify statements to ledger differences. Ensure follow up procedure with suppliers and internal departments
• Request and ensure missing invoices and credits are received and on the Accounts Payable system
• Ad hoc duties as required

 This role offers the opportunity of flexibility, based predominantly from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving.  You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent support to the wider team.

Skills and competencies

• Team player with a can do, will do attitude
• Great communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to handle a high volume of stakeholder queries via email/telephone
• Organised with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• The ability to multitask, prioritise and work under pressure

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

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We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.