Purchase Ledger Clerk

**Purchase Ledger Clerk - Start ASAP**
**Location: Barking**
**Salary: Starting at £23k**
**Working Hours: Full time Monday - Friday**

**Why Join Online Lubricants?**
- A fast-growing business with a clear pathway for career progression.
- Forward thinking and innovative company who embrace new ideas.
- We invest heavily in staff development and training.
- A fantastic opportunity to join the leading oil distribution company in London and the South East.
- We enjoy regular team/company events and nights out.

**Person specification**:

- Must have a positive attitude, be willing to learn, willing to be adaptable and grow in the role.

**Responsibilities**:

- Process supplier invoices accurately and efficiently, matching them with purchase orders and supplier delivery notes.
- Ensure accurate coding of purchases and VAT.
- Check courier invoices against deliveries, customers’ orders, and process PODs
- Maintain accurate records of supplier accounts, ensuring all relevant information is up to date.
- Prepare weekly suggested supplier payment run report in accordance with payment terms.
- Contribute to month-end closing activities.
- Support any other ad-hoc tasks and projects as required, such as raising customer invoices, taking customer orders, credit control tasks and taking customer payments over the phone.
- Reconciliation of bank accounts.
- Banking - paying cheques into the local bank.

**Requirements**:

- Knowledge in the use of MS Excel spreadsheets.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to handle high volumes of data.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet deadlines effectively.
- Good communication skills to liaise with suppliers, customers and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles and understanding of purchase ledger processes is advantageous.

**What we provide**:

- Flexible working where possible
- Phone/phone allowance for drivers/management
- Workwear
- Ad-hoc bonuses
- Pension
- 20 days annual leave
- Free tea, coffee, breakfast, lunches, kitchen provisions
- Benenden Healthcare & Cashplan
- Company events
- Referral scheme
- Oil and other products for personal car

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Barking, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- purchase ledger: 1 year (required)
- Accounts payable: 1 year (preferred)
- Microsoft Excel: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person