Accounts Payable Assistant

**About The Role**

Ecotricity, Britain’s greenest energy company, are looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join the small and friendly team in Stroud. Our team is responsible for ensuring the accurate, timely and prompt payment processing of supplier invoices. The role will involve entering invoices and credit notes, working with internal and external stakeholders to reconcile and administer supplier accounts and to resolve queries. We contribute to the mission to replace fossil fuels with green energy by providing a first-class service to the business.

**Core Responsibilities**
- Processing purchase invoices
- Obtaining and verifying invoice authorisations
- Handling weekly payment runs
- Completing supplier statement reconciliations
- Creating and maintaining accurate supplier records
- Reconciling Direct Debit and credit card payments
- Processing expense claims
- Resolving stakeholder queries
- Assisting buyers and resolving queries
- Completing month-end reconciliations
- Building effective supplier relationships
- Reconciling bank statements
- Contributing to process efficiencies
- Supporting the wider Finance Team

**About You**

You will be part of the Ecotricity Group Finance team and report into the Accounts Payable Team Leader. You will need to collaborate with colleagues both within the Accounts Payable team and across the organisation.

**Essential Skills**
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a small team
- Knowledge of AP processes
- Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel

**Desirable Skills**
- Previous experience in an Accounts Payable position
- Workday for Finance experience
- Power Query/Power BI knowledge
- AAT Level 2 or above /or studying towards an AAT qualification

**About Us**

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

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, gym, 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 its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to 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, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of - grass.

We don't just focus on energy though
- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.
- Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all._

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

**Benefits**:

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

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Ecotricity offers hybrid working. Are you able to reliably commute to our Stroud office 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 GL5 3BY

Application deadline: 06/01/2025
Reference ID: 2159