Accounts Payable Clerk

At UK Biocentre, we are looking for a part-time (4.5 hours per day) Accounts Payable Clerk to join the team.
The purpose of the role is to ensure supplier invoices are processed accurately and in a timely manner, and to ensure company debt is collected in a timely manner.
**As Accounts Payable Clerk at UK Biocentre, your responsibilities will include**:

- Processing purchase invoices through to authorisation for payment.
- Matching purchase invoices to Purchase Orders and liaise with Procurement to ensure POs are GRN’d to facilitate the posting of the invoice.
- Ensuring coding of purchase invoices to nominal ledger is accurate; that project costs are coded to a project.
- Helping reduce the number of Invoices with no Purchase Orders to a prescribed percentage.
- Investigating and resolving any invoice discrepancies or queries.
- Reconciling supplier statements and resolve any differences.
- Preparing payment runs ensuring that suppliers are paid to agreed terms.
- Allocating payments to invoices where necessary.
- Filing invoices and statements electronically in the relevant location and attach PDF of the invoice to the record in Sage.
- Sending out Debtor statements to customers each month and dunning letters as appropriate.
- Liaising with Customers, Project Managers and Finance team to collect outstanding debt and updating Customer lines on a spreadsheet tracker with updates.
- Attending bi-weekly meetings to discuss outstanding debt and actions being taken.

**We are looking for an Accounts Payable Clerk who has the following skills and experiences**:

- IT Literate including use of Microsoft Office with good knowledge of Excel.
- Previous Purchase Ledger and Credit Control experience.
- Understanding of the basic principles of VAT and basic accounting principles.
- Attention to detail and accuracy to complete all tasks to a high standard.
- The ability to build strong working relationships and communicate with employees and external stakeholders / suppliers.
- Use of Sage 200, or similar software.
- Familiarity with ISO standards (ISO 9001, ISO 15189, ISO 27001).

All UK Biocentre staff will be aware of and work in accordance with the quality policy, relevant quality objectives and hold accountability to their contribution to the effectiveness of the quality management system, including understanding the benefits ofimproved performance and the implications of not conforming with the quality management system requirements.
To uphold the health and safety all individuals working for or visiting UK Biocentre are committed to the Health and Safety Policy and to the implementation and maintenance of the highest standards in accordance with health, safety, and welfare across the business.All staff are expected to adhere to the company policies and share this commitment to work together to achieve excellence.