Purchase & Sales Ledger Controller

Hours: Full or Part Time; Monday to Friday between the hours of 8.30am - 5.00pm

Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 per annum (pro rata) based on experience

Annual leave entitlement starting at 23 days plus bank holiday (pro rata), increasing with length of service up to 28 days plus bank holidays

Matched Pension Scheme

Life Assurance (4 times basic salary)

FREE BUPA healthcare and Dental Plan

Long Service Awards at 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 years

Employee Discounts

Free parking

Main Purpose of Role:

The responsibilities of this role will include primarily managing Purchase Ledger with Sales Ledger duties involved. You will ensure accurate and timely updates to the accounting system, and handling customer and supplier transactions. You will also be responsible for debt collection, account reconciliation, and addressing queries, contributing to the smooth operation of our financial processes.

Purchase Ledger Duties:

• Take responsibility for the purchase order process, including raising and coding all purchase orders
• Match purchase orders to invoices and delivery notes, ensuring any queries are addressed and invoices are posted on the system to meet deadlines.
• Ensure all expense claims are checked, coded, and input onto the system.
• Ensure all documents are approved by the relevant authorisation level.
• Reconcile creditor statements.
• Produce due and overdue reports and decide on necessary payments.
• Ensure all invoices, expense forms, and other documents are filed correctly.
• Raise supplier payments.
• Ensure the accruals and prepayment process is efficient and completed within agreed timescales.

Sales Ledger Duties:

• Send out reminder letters weekly and effectively deal with customer enquiries, raising credit notes where necessary.
• Process cheques received, monitor BACs payments on internet banking and input onto system
• Complete bank reconciliations onto the system
• Administer incoming direct debits.
• Liaise with sales team to maintain the Debtors Ledger.
• Review customer accounts and monitor aged debt reports.
• Resolve overdue account queries through liaison with the relevant salesperson and solicitor if needed.

Essential Skills:

• Experience of working in a similar role and/or Accounts environment
• Strong IT skills (Microsoft office) particularly Excel
• Good experience in accounting systems
• Due to the location of this role, a full UK driving licence is essential
• Reliable with strong work ethic
• Attention to detail and dedication to providing high quality, error-free work

Additional Information:

Hybrid working of 2 days per week available after successful completion of 6 months probation.