Purchase Ledger

Purchase Ledger Clerk – Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career! If so, we are looking for a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our dedicated team of Purchase Ledgers in our team in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Your role:

As the Purchase Ledger Clerk, you will work in a team who deliver the highest quality of service to an internationally dedicated client base. Your key responsibility will be to maintain the supplier accounts, enabling prompt and efficient payment.

Key responsibilities:

• Receiving, distributing and actioning post accordingly
• Ensuring all relevant haulage documentation is received
• Processing, scanning, validating and retrieving of invoices, including manually inputting supplier invoices as and when required
• Invoice checking and verification, and where necessary obtaining approval for invoices from relevant divisions prior to making payment
• Managing supplier accounts by reconciling with statements and dealing with/ resolving supplier queries as and when they arise
• Checking payment runs for suppliers on the relevant payment dates and ensuring payment terms are adhered to
• Setting up new, or amending, supplier accounts as requested by managers.

About you:

As the successful Purchase Ledger Clerk, you will have significant previous experience in a similar role, ideally liaising with providers and vendors of products and services. Essential that you have good knowledge of Microsoft packages, accurate data inputting skills, with a logical mindset, excellent attention to detail and ability to learn and memorise information.  Strong organisational and communication skills, with ability to prioritise and manage a workload would also be an advantage.

Who are we

We are P&O Ferrymasters, and we work with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure that their goods get to where they need to on time and efficiently. We have locations across Europe and the Northern Mediterranean and our routes cover road, rail, and sea.

We operate from over 20 locations in 13 countries and work with some of the best-known global household names.

We are a part of DP World who are one of the largest global logistics companies in the world; at any one time 10% of all shipping containers in the world are being shipped by DP World. We are proud to lead the future of logistics to help enable global trade in the 21st century and beyond.

We offer:

A salary of £22,000 - £23,000 (depending on experience), working 35 hours per week.  Other benefits include Company pension, P&O Ferries travel concessions, and an Employee Assistance Scheme, backed by a wellbeing programme along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development. We also offer a benefits platform including a range of voluntary health insurances, cycle to work, and retail discounts.

Do you have what we’re looking for And does this Purchase Ledger Clerk sound like the perfect opportunity for you We hope so – in which case, now’s the time to let us know! Please apply with your CV and covering letter as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Additional keywords: logistics, purchase ledger, accounts, assistant, finance, accounting, bookkeeping, administration, Accounts payable, Supplier management, Invoice processing

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