Accounts Payable Analyst

This role offers remote working or working from the office, hours are 37 per week, flexible start and finish times

Excellent opportunity to join our impressive, large, rewarding and expanding Global client working within their Accounts Payable team based in Quedgeley, Gloucester. They are currently recruiting for permanent Accounts Payable Analyst.

This position is specialized and complex role within an Accounts Payable department that will focus primarily on the goods Return To vendor (RTV) process; it will involve performing investigations that aim to verify the correctness and completeness of informationalong with assessing the true value of goods returned so that the vendor is less likely to reject the claim, it will also involve creating claim documents that are entered as debit notes on to the AP ledger, liaising with vendors to obtain credit notes, reconcilingcredit notes received against outstanding claims, reversing claims from the AP ledger and replacing them with the vendor credit notes, and ensuring that all claims are recovered from the vendors within acceptable time frames.

**Responsibilities**:

- Operate MS access reports to create a schedule of outstanding RTV claims.
- Collate information for each RTV to aid with the preparation of claim documentation that will be shared with the vendor.
- Work with Ops locations to improve the information they collate and share, so that a smoother claiming process with the vendors can be achieved.
- Creating claim documents, entering them on to the AP ledger, and ensuring that all documentation is stored in the electronic data management system (EDMS).
- Liaising with vendors to obtain credit notes for outstanding claims.
- Reconciling credit notes against outstanding claims.
- Reviewing aged debit balances that are caused by return claims and communicating with vendors to organize refunds where necessary.
- Attention to detail, problem solving ability, thoroughness, organisation, and general maths skills are essential to the role.
- Strong Excel skills, particularly knowledge and experience of using V-lookups would be ideal
- Ability to communicate effectively with vendors, team members, as well as other internal departments.

**Salary**:

- Competitive & negotiable depending on experience + 23 days holiday + Bank Holidays

**Hours**:

- Monday - Friday - 37 hours remote working or working from the office, flexible start and finish times