Purchase Ledger

Your role sits within the Transaction team which is responsible for all Transaction and Purchase Ledger activities.

Main Responsibilities &Accountabilities

  • Purchase Ledger invoice, accurate nominal account coding, inputting and payment scheduling in a timely fashion and import to Kefron
  • Conferring with editorial staff to resolve queries or disputers promptly and obtain invoice authorisation
  • Managing and keeping up to date contributor lists
  • Ensure there are no payments on accounts with no invoice
  • Payment runs
  • Print and paper invoice coding and checking to rate card
  • Assist with reconciling creditors accounts with their statements
  • Processing of refunds and adjustments.
  • Liaise with other colleagues to ensure that anomalies are investigated/queries dealt with in a timely manner
  • Assist Management Accountants with Month end.
  • Raise ad hoc sales ledger invoices on a regular basis and email out promptly to customers.
  • Post payments in the ledger in a timely and accurate manner and allocating to correct invoices.
  • Process magazine sales distribution UK/Ireland
  • PayPal – including queries and payments
  • Reconciling balance sheet accounts
  • Prepare year end bank information and Assist with production of working papers for the annual audit
  • Other ad hoc duties

Behavioural Competencies

Communication

  • Speaks clearly, succinctly, confidently and accurately
  • Writes clearly, succinctly, confidently and accurately
  • Demonstrates confidence in talking to colleagues and customers
  • Is prepared to flex style of communication
  • Checks understanding to ensure key points are understood
  • Listens to others and acts on information received

Professional Excellence and Customer Focus

  • Is professional and courteous with customers
  • Works with customers to meet their varying needs
  • Quickly and effectively solves customer problems
  • Behaves professionally and with integrity and understands the importance of high standards of conduct

Teamwork

  • Listens and responds constructively to other team members’ ideas
  • Gives honest and constructive feedback to other team members
  • Provides assistance to others when they need it
  • Works for solutions that all team members can support
  • Shares his/her expertise with others
  • Provides assistance, information, or other support to others, to build or maintain relationships with them

Accountability

  • Accepts responsibility for positive and negative outcomes of work
  • Takes responsibility for making and implementing decisions
  • Takes personal responsibility for driving outcomes and achieving objectives set
  • Performs own job with the broader goals in mind
  • Helps and supports fellow employees

Initiative

  • Actively seeks and identifies opportunities to contribute and achieve goals
  • Maintains a sense of purpose, value and ownership of their work
  • Seizes opportunities when they arise
  • Makes links between different pieces of information

IT Skills

  • Strong IT skills specifically Excel , Outlook and accounting software

Please contact either gary.evans@kelsey.co.uk  or HR@kelsey.co.uk.