Purchase Ledger Assistant

Here at **Graham & Brown**, we are looking for an enthusiastic **Purchase Ledger Assistant** to join the team, **based in Blackburn**. You will join us on a **full-time, permanent basis**. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of** £21,988 to £23,145 per annum**, plus a great range of benefits.

**Graham & Brown** has had design and colour at the heart of our business for over 75 years. With leading brands such as Superfresco Easy and the Graham & Brown brand itself, our offer stretches across categories from wallpaper, paint, fabric and wall art. We are committed to contemporary, leading-edge design, across our international markets, and put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We have been recognised as a “Cool Brand” on seven successive occasions. As a 3rd generation, family run business, we have the luxury of freedom to implement fresh ideas and to form great working relationships with all our colleagues across the business. We are also a carbon-neutral business with a real commitment to sustainability.

**We offer a range of excellent benefits, including**:

- 32 days holiday entitlement (including Bank Holidays)
- Flexi-time working
- Birthday day off
- Generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products, up to 60%
- Access to colleague discount portal
- Generous pension, totalling 10%
- Life Assurance
- Free Parking
- Use of company pool cars for company business
- Regular Company social events, brought to us by our very own Fun Squad

As our **Purchase Ledger Assistant, **you will provide a professional and efficient service as part of the finance function. Managing the whole purchase ledger process on a day-to-day basis, you will build great relationships and communicate well with both internal teams and external suppliers. You will be responsible for ensuring payments are processed on time while protecting the Company’s controls via appropriate approvals. The purchase ledger team deals with over 2,000 suppliers, both domestic and international across 2 team members.

**Our **Purchase Ledger Assistant will have the following responsibilities**:

- Daily matching and processing invoices to purchase orders, in part and in full in the ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Collating delivery notes and matching/filing with invoices
- Processing non-purchase order purchases via journals
- Monitoring the approvals process, ensuring invoices are processed only after receiving the appropriate approvals
- Generating BACs payments for domestic suppliers
- Proposing international payments and pass to cashier
- Reconciling supplier statements on a monthly basis
- Managing the process of putting query invoices on hold and working with relevant individuals to resolve the query on a timely basis
- Creating new supplier accounts and maintaining existing accounts
- Reviewing aged creditor balances and provide accurate financial information
- Assisting with the month end close of the purchase ledger and generating aged creditor reports
- Maintenance of purchase invoice filing system

**Experience and skills required by our **Purchase Ledger Assistant**:

- All round purchase ledger knowledge
- Knowledge of accounting systems
- Account reconciliation skills
- Aptitude for numbers
- Good computer skills including Excel
- Good telephone manner
- Flexibility
- Self-motivated
- Able to work on own initiative
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics AX would be an advantage
- 2 years’ previous experience is desirable but not essential

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click ‘**Apply**’ now to be considered our **Purchase Ledger Assistant**:

- we’d love to hear from you