Our client, an education institution is currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Officer - purchase ledger. The overall role involves maintaining the integrity of the purchase ledger of the client ensuring all accounts are reconciled appropriately to supplier statements, suppliers BACS payment runs and other payments are adhered to strict deadlines.You MUST have a finance background to apply.

Supervising the Accounts Payable Officer and assisting them in the fulfilment of their duties. Supervisory experience would be a bonus but not essential.

Senior Finance Officer - Purchase ledger

• To receive, register and scan supplier invoices into Aptos workflow for approval by relevant budget holders.
• To ensure the correct workflow for Aptos users is set up and updated in a timely manner. To monitor the workflow, report any issues immediately and liaise with systems support if necessary.
• To prepare and submit regular payment runs for purchase ledger within monthly deadlines.
• To process and submit weekly bursary payments.
• o process add-hoc payments on Barclays.net
• To process payments of student refunds in a timely manner.
• To ensure that incentive payments are approved, accurately recorded and funds received by the college before releasing payment.
• To ensure that income and expenditure is accurately recorded and matched for student residential trips, and ensuring appropriate paperwork is in place before releasing payment
• To reconcile all purchase ledger accounts to supplier statements and agree to ledger listing. Investigate any queries.
• To maintain supplier base, reference check and record details of new supplier accounts.
• To reconcile the purchase ledger to the nominal ledger on a monthly basis, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary.
• To ensure all cash received is banked weekly and recorded on the cashbook system, with receipts issued where appropriate. Discrepancies are investigated immediately.
• To co-ordinate and arrange cash collection from all sites and ensure all monies are banked weekly.
• To make arrangements with external cash collection company that banking at peak times is collected on a daily basis.
• To process and record credit card transactions once appropriately authorised.

Please only apply if you have the relevant Finance experience that is required for this role.

Thank you.

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.