3 month Temporary Purchase Ledger

Huntress ,
Chessington, London, Greater London
Contract Type: Contract
Salary: £24,000 per annum

Overview

A leading UK supplier is recruiting for a 3 month temporary PURCHASE LEDGER to work within their offices in Chessington: Salary: £24,500-£26,000 You main responsibility will be to control and maintain the Company's Purchase Ledger with responsibility for posting invoices, liaising with suppliers. DUTIES Processing Invoices: To obtain due approval from the Finance Manager to process overhead invoices. To accurately post invoices to the Purchase Ledger taking due care of the analysis of the expense. Oversee the posting and accuracy of stock invoices that are being processed through the POP system. Month end procedures Purchase Ledger: To achieve timely closure of the Purchase Ledger on the first working day of the new month. This is to include: Ensuring the cashbook is complete and the cash is balanced and payments are allocated on the supplier accounts. Running required month end reports, ensuring completeness and accuracy on each report. To liaise with suppliers and the Purchase Ledger Assistants to ensure that the Purchase Ledger is as complete as possible prior to closure. Account reconciliation: On a monthly basis reconcile each Purchase Ledger account to the supplier's statement. Conduct investigation into differences, identifying any missing invoices/credits and reviewing the outstanding queries ensuring the supplier statement is fully reconciled. Overheads: Reviewing the overheads on a month by month basis through preparation of P&L schedules, identifying and processing of accruals and prepayments. Preparing and distributing the company credit card statements. Setting deadlines for return, coding and posting to the nominal ledger. Raising cheques and bacs payments for Petty cash and expenses in good time. Completing the petty cash reconciliation for the Finance Manager, identifying any posting errors or omissions. Stock To ensure that good month end cut off occurs between stock and accounting systems. Account payments: To prepare payment runs 3 days ahead of the payment being due. Prepare and submit ad-hoc payments. Provide the finance manager with accurate payment projections for the cashflow. Liaise with suppliers over additional payments where required. To send remittances to suppliers once payment has been submitted. Security : To take all necessary and possible steps to ensure the security of cash, cheques and other company assets and fraud. Service: To answer telephone and deal with enquiries and complaints in a prompt, courteous and efficient manner. To carry out all duties so as to promote good customer and supplier relations. You will have a good working knowledge of Excel and be able to use pivot tables, V Lookups and confident at data manipulation. It is an immediate start. Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles. PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.