Purchase Ledger Assistant

About us

We’re an award-winning, market-leading 3PL specialising in high-quality order fulfilment and delivery services. ILG customers are premium brands, many in the beauty, fashion and wellbeing sectors. Our mission is to help them succeed. ILG is a people business – we invest in training and development, recognising and rewarding our people’s achievements and creating opportunities for them to progress within our business. We understand the importance of making time to unwind and have fun, so we fund a number of social events, including our amazing annual party. Each year we celebrate in style, present our annual employee awards and recognise the people that make our business so special.  So, if you want to develop an exciting career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you.

The role

Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role has full responsibility of the Purchase Order system which precludes all invoices and is pivotal to invoice and cost management internally.

The key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Daily monitoring of exception queues
• Accurate recognition of cost and liability
• Resolution of queries and disputes in a timely manner
• Providing support to the Management Accountant & Finance Manager with month end and year end reporting requirement
• Producing KPIs to aid the monitoring of departmental targets
• Liaising with suppliers and ILG departments to set up new suppliers

What we are looking for

• Studying towards an AAT qualification or qualified AAT
• Understanding of the purchase order process and the importance of cost control
• Experience of taking ownership of and resoving supplier queries in a timely manner
• Understanding the purpose of the purchase ledger control account
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Proven ability to work to tight reporting deadlines and effectively manage own workload
• Ability to build and maintain relationships internally and externally

Please be aware we will be considering applications as we receive them and arranging interviews accordingly. Depending on the volume of applications we receive we may close this advert ahead of the advertised closing date.