Purchase Ledger Clerk

Your Role

You will be part of a highly dedicated team of Purchase Ledger professionals based in our office in Ipswich, Suffolk, who are responsible for delivering the highest quality of service to an internationally dedicated client base.

Key Responsibilities

As Purchase Ledger Clerk you will be responsible for the maintenance of supplier accounts to enable prompt and efficient payment.

• Receiving, distributing and actioning post accordingly
• Ensuring all relevant haulage documentation is received
• Processing, scanning, validating and retrieving of invoices, and inputting of supplier invoices manually as and when required
• Invoice checking and verification, and where necessary obtaining approval for invoices from relevant divisions prior to making payment
• Dealing with and resolving supplier queries as and when they arise
• Checking payment runs for suppliers on the relevant payment dates and ensuring payment terms are adhered to
• Managing supplier accounts by reconciling with statements
• Setting up new, or amending, supplier accounts as requested by managers.

Your profile 

As Purchase Ledger Clerk, you have significant experience of liaising with providers and vendors of products and services and will also possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and in writing.

• Experience within a Purchase Ledger department
• Accurate data input skills
• Strong organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise
• Logical mindset, with excellent attention to detail and ability to learn and memorise information
• Excellent cooperation and team working
• Good knowledge of Microsoft computer packages

Who are we

We are P&O Ferrymasters, and we work with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure that their goods get to where they need to on time and efficiently. We have locations across Europe and the Northern Mediterranean and our routes cover road, rail, and sea.

We operate from over 20 locations in 13 countries and work with some of the best-known global household names. We are a part of DP World who are one of the largest global logistics companies in the world; at any one time 10% of all shipping containers in the world are being shipped by DP World. We are proud to lead the future of logistics to help enable global trade in the 21st century and beyond.

We offer

P&O Ferrymasters offers a competitive package in line with the seniority of the position. Salary will be dependent on experience of the successful candidate.

Other benefits include Company pension, P&O Ferries travel concessions, and an Employee Assistance Scheme, backed by a wellbeing programme along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development. We also offer a benefits platform including a range of voluntary health insurances, cycle to work, and retail discounts.

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