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Job title: Purchase Ledger Assistant

Department: Finance

Location: Halifax / Hybrid (2-3 days a week in office)

Hours: 37.5 hours / week

Salary: £22,000-£25,000

We're looking for a Purchase Ledger Assistant to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.

**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

To provide accurate and timely administrative assistance to the MRN finance team, predominantly assisting the purchase ledger team. Key responsibility areas will include: supplier accounts management, resolving queries, processing supplier payments and assisting with inbound phone queries.

Key responsibilities

• Responsibility for managing assigned supplier accounts and developing good working relationships

• Ensuring that all queries are resolved within SLAs and escalating issues to the correct department

• Reconciling supplier statements

• Assisting with weekly supplier payment runs

• Assisting with weekly Work In Progress reviews

• Producing and checking supplier payment schedules

• Chasing supplier invoices

• Monitoring group and personal inbox and ensuring that all emails are responded to within 48 hours

• Taking inbound calls for accounts

• Working alongside other departments to assist with repairer queries

• Adhoc tasks as required

Skills and experience

• Excellent attention to detail

• A methodical approach to query resolution

• High standard of accuracy

• Ability to work under pressure

• Good working knowledge of Sage 200

• Intermediate MS Excel skills

• Ability to prioritise workload

• Willingness to learn and desire to improve current processes

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

• Life assurance: three times basic salary

• Free breakfasts and fruit

• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.