Purchase Ledger Assistant (12 month fixed term contract)

A very exciting opportunity has arisen in our Purchase Ledger team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

The Finance department provides financial support for Admiral Group’s UK Insurance brands.

This involves the following:

• Maintenance of appropriate financial controls over departmental expenses to ensure the accuracy of regular expense reporting and the adherence to budgets
• Purchase ledger services to the Group 
• Preparation of regular financial and operational management reports to the business 
• Provision of ad-hoc financial advice to senior management and the business as a whole

The role in Purchase Ledger will involve the following tasks:

• Adding invoices to a capture system to match to Purchase Orders
• Reviewing Accrued Purchase Orders within MS Dynamics 365 to ensure budgets are accurately charged.
• Reconcile company card purchases, allocating the spend to a cost line
• Perform supplier statement reconciliations and chase up any outstanding invoices
• Deal with emails in the PL, Finance and PL Invoices inboxes.
• Any other admin tasks required.

Skills required

• Previous Purchase Ledger experience is desirable but not essential
• Basic knowledge of MS Excel
• Ability to process high work volumes and maintain high accuracy is essential
• Enthusiastic, motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Excellent team player
• “Can do attitude” to work
• Confident at communicating with internal and external stakeholders

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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