Accounts Payable Clerk

Job Introduction

As an Accounts Payable Clerk/ Purchase Ledger Clerk at HCRG Care Group, you will play a vital role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing, payment, and allocation of invoices. You will provide exceptional service to both internal and external stakeholders while maintaining strong financial controls.

Supporting the AP Manager, you will assist in supplier master data updates and ledger cleansing, contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the finance function. Your attention to detail and commitment to accuracy will help maintain compliance with financial policies and procedures, ensuring a smooth and well-managed accounts payable process.

This is a hybrid role where you are expected to regularly visit the Runcorn office.

Main Responsibility

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Process purchase invoices promptly to ensure payment within supplier terms.
• Resolve variances, missing receipts, and exceptions on purchase order invoices by liaising with requisitioners.
• Perform monthly statement reconciliations for key suppliers and ad-hoc tasks.
• Manage a busy AP mailbox, addressing invoices and queries.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to identify and resolve issues.
• Manage Direct Debit accounts, chase invoices, and ensure VAT invoices are processed.
• Ensure payments are made in accordance with agreed terms.
• Work with the business to close purchase orders once goods and invoices are received.
• Maintain records in the ERP system, attaching invoices and documentation.
• Perform other ad-hoc duties as required
  
  

Please see attached job description for full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally we are looking for a passionate self-starter with demonstrable experience of the following:

• Minimum 3 years’ previous experience in an account’s payable role specifically within a high transactional volume environment
• Target driven individual who enjoys working as part of a team
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet agreed SLA’s.
• Attention to detail ensuring high levels of accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of working to tight deadlines
• Good understanding of MS Office including Excel (vlookups and pivots) and Outlook
• Driving licence and access to a car.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central ERP system.
• Experience in Proactis P2P system.
  
  

Package Description

As a Accounts Payable Clerk/Purchase Ledger Clerk at HCRG Care Group you will be appreciated for your efforts and have access to exclusive rewards and benefits, including:

• Salary of £24,000 with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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