Accounts Payable Clerk

Our client is a market leading organisation that provides construction and engineering solutions for large building projects nationwide. With over 2000 employees in the UK, they now have an additional vacancy for an Accounts payable clerk in the payments and reconciliation team based at their head office in Hertfordshire.

On top of a competitive basic salary, they also provide the following benefits:

25 days holiday per annum

Private Medical Cover with Bupa

Death in Service benefit

Contributory Pension Scheme (Employer 5%/Employee 3%)

Cycle to work scheme

Discount voucher scheme

On site canteen

Free on-site parking

A 35 HOUR WEEK! Working hours are 9am to 5pm with one hour for lunch.

Our clients and its subsidiaries receive in the region of 12,500 supplier invoices a month. These invoices are logged onto their in house finance system and authorisation at site level. Suppliers are paid promptly in accordance to agreed payment terms and reports are generated to the business to show the impact of the costs. Supplier communication is usually by telephone or e mail which should be responded to asap to ensure a high level of service both internally and externally.

Duties to include:

• Receiving high volumes of supplier enquiries by telephone and e mail
• Data integrity checks of data entered for the payment process
• Distribution of reports to site.
• Dealing with internal and external enquiries and resolving disputed invoices.
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing post to and from suppliers and sites.
• Assisting with the generating and distribution of aged creditor reports in Excel for chasing Sites for invoice authorisation and return with required timescales to comply with supplier agreed payment terms.
• Assisting with Identifying and implementing process improvements
• Filing documents in the correct format and locations.
• Ad Hoc duties that are applicable to the Account Payable function
• Assisting in testing of all new systems to be implemented.

The successful candidate will be awarded a generous Salary: £26,000. Please note this position is a 6-12 month fixed term contract.

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy

Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions come in.