Accounts Payable Clerk

Location: Carrington, Manchester, M31 4QN.

Salary: Competitive, DOE.

Contract: Part time, 30 hours per week, permanent.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Payable Clerk to join the Finance Shared Service Centre based at Saica UK & Ireland s Corporate Head Office in Carrington, Manchester.

Saica provide sustainable solutions to produce paper and recycled packaging, while developing circularity in waste management. Saica s values underpin their business culture and fuel their shared goal to drive social change through the development of sustainable and profitable business units without putting the next generation at risk. Saica is present within 10 countries and 2 continents, with 106 sites, and a family of more than 10,000 people worldwide. Accumulating annual sales of ???5 billion, growing incrementally each year as Saica invests more and more into their people and operations.

As an FSSC contact, you will build in-depth knowledge and relationships with both external and internal customers. The successful applicant will be a pro-active, hardworking, multi-tasking individual with a proven track record of Accounts Payables. Your success will lie in your ability to communicate and collaborate at all levels enabling you to provide support to SAICA plants across the UK & Ireland.

The role

• Process AP transactions and manage queries with 3rd parties and internal customers

• Ensure invoices processed only when correctly authorised and coded

• Deal promptly with queries from suppliers and operations

• Scan invoices onto ReadSoft system and monitor accuracy of capture

• Correctly identify destination of invoices and forward to correct regional contact for processing

• Manage suppliers on direct debit payments ensuring invoices correctly entered and debit balances do not arise

• Perform supplier statement reconciliations on identified key accounts

• Ensure VAT and nominal coding correct on all processed transactions

• Supporting FSSC continuous improvement projects

• Identifying any potential problems and proactively providing solutions

Candidate profile

• Excellent communicator who can liaise at all levels

• Team player who is able to quickly establish relationships

• An ability to meet deadlines and deliver work in a fast-paced finance environment

• Open minded to flexible ways of working and able to adapt to new processes and procedures

• SAP experience required

• Invoice processing system experience ideal but not essential

• Good excel skills required

If you feel you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role then apply today!