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Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Accounts Payable Clerk and be part of a hugely successful and friendly Supplier Onboarding Team.
The Role:
Our role as an Accounts Payable Clerk for Supplier Onboarding is an excellent opportunity! The Accounts Payable Clerk will be passionate about improving data integrity and maintaining the accuracy of supplier master data ensuring that all controls and procedures are followed. The Accounts Payable Clerk for Supplier Onboarding will work closely with a range of stakeholders from internal colleagues through to suppliers in order to maintain and validate the supplier data within our finance systems and will gain exposure to a wide array of responsibilities and tasks.
This role will also involve an element of other Accounts Payable duties including invoice processing and coding, resolving supplier queries, reconciling supplier accounts and producing data for analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Supplier Onboarding
Maintenance of Accounts Payable supplier master data, ensuring all data is correct and the supplier onboarding process has been completed on a timely basis and complies with established controls and procedures
Supplier and customer verification checks via email/phone/Web
Maintaining supplier onboarding email inboxes and liaising with a variety of internal stakeholders, including our Commercial team, to ensure queries are resolved promptly
Consistent process and control improvement
Accounts Payable
Ensure that all invoices received are processed, matched and coded accurately and in a timely manner
Maintaining accounts payable email inboxes and resolving queries from both suppliers and our branch network, acting as the first point of contact for query resolution
Ensure invoices are directed to the appropriate budget holders for approval, ensuring the prompt payment of supplier invoices within our agreed terms.
Prepare supplier statement reconciliations and investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies.
Other ad hoc tasks as required
This role offers the opportunity of hybrid flexibility, based 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
A minimum of GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent)
Good communication skills, both written and verbal with basic report writing skills and an excellent telephone manner
Good interpersonal skills
Methodical with attention to detail
Well organised with the ability to plan workload to achieve deadlines
Excellent numeracy skills and conversant in Excel/Google sheets (Formula work)
Self motivated
Ability to work effectively under pressure
Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
Experience working within an Accounts Payable function is preferable but not essential
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!
#BelongWithUs
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.