Job Title: Finance Assistant

Salary £25k per annum

Hybrid working 3 days in office 2 WFH

Based at Leeds Support Centre.

Reporting to: Purchase Ledger Supervisor

Job purpose:

Predominantly assisting the Purchase Ledger Supervisor with the day-to-day invoice and expenses processing and coding, using web based procure to pay and invoice capture software, to ensure that invoices are accurately processed in a timely manner, statements are reconciled, and queries resolved, but also assisting the Sales Ledger team with income processing, account reconciliations, credit control debt chasing. We see this role split 3 days Purchase Ledger and 2 days Sales Ledger/Credit Control, but will fluctuate with business needs

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Processing and checking of coding of purchase invoices, in a timely manner
• Checking and Processing employee expense claims in line with company policies
• Dealing with purchase ledger queries from external and internal sources ensuring all queries have been followed up within appropriate time scale
• Reconciliation of supplier statements
• Support to Homes to ensure effective use of the procurement software
• Establishing good working relationships with our care homes, internal authorisers, and external suppliers
• Investigative work in Sales Ledger to enable correct account reconciliation
• Reconciliation of credit balances in the debtors ledger
• Holiday cover for other finance staff
• Assisting with Audit requests
• Ad hoc reporting from income processing system/P2P systems
• Any other ad hoc finance duties.

Person Specification:

• Great verbal and written communication skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, especially Excel
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn
• Experience of Sage 200 is desirable, but not essential, as full training will be provided
• Experience of using a web base CRM and invoice processing /Procure to Pay systems (desirable)
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Solid team working skills
• Self-disciplined and efficient, with a flexible and proactive nature.