Accounts Payable Clerk

**About the opportunity** We are recruiting for two aspiring Accounts Payable Clerk's to join our expanding Accounts Payable team based at our Customer Service Centre in Walsall.

As an Accounts Payable Clerk, you will report to the Accounts Payable Team Leader and be working closely within a team to process approximately 4,000 invoices per month. You will be working with a passionate and supportive team. In a business that has recentlycompleted a significant investment in Oracle Finance, knowledge of the system or similar ERP systems would be advantageous.

This is a **fixed term role for 6 months.**

**What you'll be doing...** As an Accounts Payable Clerk, your duties will consist of:

- The accurate and timely provision of purchase ledger duties and accounts functions
- Following up on unauthorised invoices/credits that appear on the invoice register with the relevant departments
- To input invoice details and orders and match against purchase order documentation
- Producing monthly supplier statement reconciliations, addressing any issues that arise and ensuring they are resolved within SLA
- Completion of a weekly BACs payment run ensuring invoices are paid within the agreed terms
- Ensuring that all correspondence relating to overdue accounts is actioned and solved on the day of receipt
- Taking supplier queries and investigating and resolving or referring where necessary
- Stakeholder management at all levels, both internally and externally

Due to the nature of our business, the ability to thrive in a busy and fast-paced environment would be preferred. To succeed in this role, you will need to be a flexible, enthusiastic team player with a good overview of how the AP process works, excellentcommunication skills, and an eye for detail.

You will also have:

- High levels of accuracy and attention to detail is crucial, along with experience of large amounts of Data are preferable
- Be computer literate (Microsoft packages)
- Have excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Be adaptable to ongoing process changes
- Have a sound understanding of the purchase to pay process
- Excellent customer service skills

**What we can offer...** **What we can offer...**
- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Long service awards
- Additional holiday purchase - (once a year window to apply)
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

**About us...** Since opening our first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, Poundland, has built a network of over 850 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value everyday

Poundland offers thousands of quality products in store with over 1,000 well-known brands in 17 shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys.We are now on a journey froma single price to a simple price point retailer.

Now part of Pepco Group with over 2,500 stores across Europe, you will see Poundland also trades internationally in the Republic of Ireland through its Dealz brand.Dealz has a growing store base in both Poland and Spain.

Within the UK Poundland has also rolled out its fashion brand PEP&CO to approximately 300 of our larger stores. PEP&CO, launched in 2015 as a stand-alone brand, offers customers a full range of women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and is now bringing new styleto Poundland with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.

PEP&CO was also nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.