We have an exciting opportunity to join our Finance team as an Accounts Payable Clerk. We are looking for a strong team player who can administer the accounts payable process from start to finish. With growth plans for 2023 and beyond it is an exciting time to join Vegetarian Express.
Salary: Negotiable DOE
Benefits: 25 days holiday, NEST pension, life assurance, Cash Health plan
Location: Watford, WD24 7RY, Hybrid
Hours of work: 40 hours per week (8:30 – 17:00)
Main purpose of the role:
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the accounts payable inbox and ensuring prompt correspondence with all suppliers, ensuring all invoices are posted and authorised in a timely manner, monitoring supplier accounts ensuring invoices are paid to terms and timely preparation of payment runs (x2 per month) with attention to detail when coding invoices. Responsibilities will also include ensuring the cashbook reconciles at month end while working closely with the accounts receivables team, working closely with the Management Accountant keeping them abreast of any issues and developing strong relationships internally and externally.
Key job responsibilities:
- Assemble, review and verify invoices
- Flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items or prices
- Enter, upload and code invoices onto the system
- Prepare electronic transfers and payments
- Issue remittance advice following payment runs
- Allocate payments to invoices
- Reconcile customer accounts and monitor to ensure payments are up to date
- Correspond with vendors, answer phone calls and emails, log the relevant queries
- Provide supporting documentation for audits
- Maintain accurate historical records
- Reconcile bank accounts at month end
- Adhoc tasks as required
Skills and experience required:
- A minimum of 1 year working in a similar role
- Ability to establish and maintain good relationships both internally and externally at all levels
- Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail
- Competent in Excel and accounting software programmes – experience in SAGE 200 in preferable
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- The ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
- The ability to manage your own workload
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads
- A problem-solving approach to work
About Vegetarian Express:
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally they supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators. Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Accountant, Accounts Assistant, Accounts Payable, Accounts Analyst, Accounts Payable Processor, Bookkeeping, Accounts Clerk, Book Keeper, Accounts Reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, Finance Clerk, Finance Assistant, Bookkeeping may also be considered for this role
