Purchase Ledger Clerk

Being the UK’s largest home fragrance manufacturer and part of the Portmeirion Group, here at Wax Lyrical we design and manufacture beautiful luxury scented candles, reed diffusers and private label collections for our global customer base. Our productsare a celebration of the finest quality ingredients and local craftsmanship, including unique innovations that demonstrate a deep understanding of our customers’ refined tastes.
We are a team of people who are absolutely passionate about what we do and are very proud of what we have achieved together and have big ambitions to grow our market share We are currently looking for a full-time Accounts Payable Clerk due to internal promotion
**Purchase Ledger Clerk Responsibilities will include**:

- Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, and recording accounts payable data
- Creation of new Vendors in accordance with company policy
- Reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted.
- Verify and investigate discrepancies, if any, by reconciling vendor accounts and monthly vendor statements
- Generate reports detailing accounts payables status
- Understand expense accounts and cost centres
- Understand compliance issues around accounts payable processes (deferment account, sales tax, IR35, etc)
- Processing of multi-currency invoices and payments
- To cover AP Clerk with processing of Expenses through SAP Concur when required
- Liaise with the externals auditors to assist them in completing their external audit work
- To support AP Supervisor, and cover when required

**Purchase Ledger Clerk Requirements**:
The ability to juggle priorities is key so you will be great at managing your time, be highly organised with a strong work ethic and flexible attitude and approach to work. We expect high standards and you will be great at developing and maintaining collaborativeworking relationships to get things done efficiently. You will find that here at Wax Lyrical, our values are important to us so we’ll expect you to commit to them and live them every day. You should ideally be based within easy travelling distance of Lindalin Furness, near Ulverston in Cumbria.
Key Skills
- Proven working experience in Accounts Payable
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable principles
- Proven ability to calculate, post and manage accounting figures and financial records
- Data entry skills along with an excellent attention to detail for numbers
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel (vlookup, xlookup, pivot tables, etc)
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent team player
- Ability to work on own initiative
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Good VAT Knowledge and understanding

**Location**: Lindal in Furness, Cumbria
**Contract Type**: Permanent
**Hours**: Full Time, 38.5 per week
**Salary**: Competitive plus benefits
You may have experience of the following: Purchase Ledger Clerk, AAT, Bookkeeping, Accounts Payable, Finance Assistant, Purchase Ledger Officer, Accounts Payable Assistant, Bookkeeper, Accounts Administrator, etc.
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