Senior Purchase Ledger Clerk

3 hours ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Hays Full time

Your new company

An immediate need for an experienced Senior Purchase Ledger Clerk to join a Norwich-based organisation on a 12-month contract supporting their UK and European AP operations with queries and, more importantly, analysis of costs vs. budget insights for their Finance Business Partners and FP&A teams.

Your new role

In this a Senior Purchase Ledger Clerk temporary job, you will be joining a busy finance function which will involve hands‑on duties combining detailed transactional ownership of the purchase ledger with a newly created strategic reporting lead across multiple countries to improve visibility of actual costs versus budgets on the purchase ledger.

Key Responsibilities

  • Check and validate high‑volume, complex purchase invoices across their UK and European operations, ensuring accuracy, correct coding and timely posting.
  • Investigate and resolve purchase ledger and expense queries, including supplier disputes, cost allocations and SLA exceptions.
  • Develop and enhance purchase ledger and expense reporting, creating clear reports that map actual costs to multiple cost centres and budgets.
  • Analyse operational cost variances versus budget, highlight drivers, and provide actionable insight to Finance Business Partners and FP&A teams.
  • Implement process improvements and controls to reduce errors, speed up processing and strengthen compliance.
  • Support month‑end and ad‑hoc reporting, including reconciliations, accruals and supplier statement management.
  • Supporting senior stakeholders across the UK and Europe, in presenting findings, recommending corrective actions and tracking outcomes.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be a confident, proactive finance professional with a strong finance background in accounts payable / purchase ledger, ideally with exposure to multi‑currency operations / payments with the ability to investigate costs and expense postings as requested by Finance Business Partners. It is expected you will have advanced IT skills and be able to produce reports or dashboard analysis of costs along with the ability to present complex information clearly.

What you'll get in return
As explained, this will be a 12-month fixed-term contract paying between £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience based in Norwich Norfolk and offering 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home. Please contact me, Andy Jarman on for more details of the benefits package.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

Desired Skills and Experience
Purchase ledger, AP , statement reconciliations GRN Accounts Payable

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