Job Description

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Urban Planters - Accounts Payable Clerk

Key Information

This role comes with a basic salary of up to \xc2\xa326,000 per annum

Urban Planters has been bringing homes and workplaces to life with plants since 1965.

We deliver our products and services using our national network of branches, spanning the length and breadth of the UK. This means we can offer the personalised service of a local business but with the standards and resources of a national organisation.

Quality, safety, sustainability and professionalism underpin all that we do. To this end, we are ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certified.

We now have a carbon negative business who\'s teams install planting in, on and around the buildings of the companies we partner with. We are happiest while we are landscaping, installing indoor planting schemes or maintaining the plants or grounds of our clients.

Permanent: A full time role, working Monday to Friday (37.5 hrs week)

Location: Join the team based at our Rooksbridge Office.

Reporting to the Management Accountant, you will be required to support our Finance team

with;

• Accurate and timely processing of purchase invoices.
• Ensure that costs are accurately recorded into the finance system, with correct
• coding, currency, VAT, supplier data.
• Ensure internal and external queries are resolved effectively via telephone and
• email.
• Processing of payments (BACs, CHAPS, cheques, direct debits).
• Conduct regular supplier statement reconciliations and resolve any differences.
• Resolve significant issues (e.g., final demand letters) promptly.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with suppliers/internal stakeholders and
• help manage their expectations.
• Escalate invoice authorisation according to the authority matrix.
• Support the management accountant as needs arise and take on ad hoc projects as needed to support the department.

Requirements

Essential Job Requirements: * Knowledge of accounts payable, maintaining general ledgers, VAT.

• Experience working within the Accounts payable function.
• Deliver to strict guidelines and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy whilst meeting deadlines.
• Excellent IT skills including Word/Excel.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and flexible.
• Good spoken & written communication skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• Show passion with a \'can do\' attitude.
• Passion for initiating and facilitating continuous improvement.

Benefits

This Opportunity is for someone looking to join a busy, fast paced business where you will be working with a friendly and welcoming team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading company in the Interior and Exterior planting sector where progression and development are encouraged.

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