Accounts Payable Assistant

4 days ago


Stroud, United Kingdom Ecotricity Group Limited Full time

The Transactional Services Team sits within Finance. The Accounts Payable team work alongside the Accounts Receivable & Direct Debit teams to ensure all monies received into and out of Ecotricity Group are processed and accounted for accurately and efficiently.

The purpose of this role is to ensure that all Purchase invoices have the correct approval and are processed in an efficient and effective manner whilst giving excellent customer service. The role is responsible for answering and resolving telephone queries with Suppliers and internal customers, and assisting with month end tasks

**Core Responsibilities**
- Telephone Customer Service with suppliers
- Distributing invoices and follow up invoice approvals
- Liaise with internal departments to resolve queries
- Assessing and interpreting data from database
- Logging incoming invoices
- checking, chasing and obtaining authorisation of invoices
- Petty Cash reconciliations and postings into SAP for all sites
- Data Entry
- General filing & housekeeping as required
- Assisting with month end tasks

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Working closely with all staff in the finance team and assisting with ad-hoc queries as they arise

**About You**

You will be able to work well under pressure with the ability to follow guidelines, but also use your own initiative. You have experience in customer service and are committed to delivering the highest levels of service.

You will be organized, good at listening and building rapport. You are able to manage your time well within a busy environment and prioritize a varied set of tasks within your working day.

**Specific Knowledge Required**
- A working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of SAP would be an advantage, but is not essential as training would be given
- An interest in working as part of a busy finance team

**About Us**

**What's in it for you...**

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

**Flexibility statement**

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity
- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain
- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too
- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2024, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of
- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though
- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.
- Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all._

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Ecotricity offers hybrid working
- are you able to reliably commute to our head office in Stroud 2/3 days per week?
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stroud

Application deadline: 31/07/2024
Reference ID: 1962



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