Job Description
Accounts Payable Clerk
About Us
At SEKO, expert logistics and supply chain management is what we do. We deliver award-winning Ecommerce Solutions, Value-Added Freight
Forwarding and specialist White Glove Services - empowering our clients with the tools to achieve remarkable growth across borders.
To ensure we retain our position at the forefront of this exciting and rapidly developing industry, we want to find new people to work with us, who want to share in the future success of the business. We’re always looking for ambitious, dedicated, and problem-solving individuals to join us in providing game-changing solutions for our clients.
Job Purpose:
The purpose of the Accounts Payable Clerk role is to actively support the clerical operations of the accounts payable function, through a commitment to achieving our site and company goals. Proactively support the UK Accounts Supervisors in tasks set out on a daily basis. The Accounts Payable Clerk will be required to Complete payments and control expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices. The Accounts Payable Clerk will be required to input and maintain integrity of accounts payable data assigned to you, as well as general administration tasks as outlined below.
Key responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Clerk are:
- To communicate daily in a professional manner with suppliers, team members, all offices and other key stakeholders.
- To reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
- To maintain the accounts payable folder
- In a timely and efficient manner – print and process high volumes of invoices for all offices with a minimum of supervision. Some one job per invoice others multiple.
- Attaching invoices to statements and/ or actively chasing statements by email and phone calls.
- Raising and logging queries in excel and chasing for resolution.
- Responsibility and accountability for maintaining accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
- Completing credit application forms and daily Bacs and Chaps requests.
- Processing and monitoring Cass & Deferment
- Ensuring that requests and queries are dealt with efficiently.
- Make adjustments, handle queries and resolve problems within company guidelines and policy. To verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
- To answer the telephone
- To take responsibility for specific projects and tasks as instructed from time to time
- Devising and maintaining office systems to best effect
- Organising and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information
- Other general administrative duties associated with the Accounts
Payable function
Skills and qualifications required for the Accounts Payable Clerk role:
- Education – minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including Maths and English
- Ability and flexibility to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Strong working capability on use of Microsoft office suite including word/ excel/ outlook
- Able to complete work and thrive within a fast moving, dynamic business and environment
- Organised - the ability to multi-task and work well under pressure and to prioritise workload and self-manage when required.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Details:
- Monday – Friday
- 37.5 hours per week
- Permanent
Compensation and benefits:
- Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer contributions)
- Referral scheme
- Death in service (4x salary)
- Private healthcare after 1 year service
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays with an extra day after 5,8-, and 10-years’ service
- Employee assistance programme
Job role: Accounts Payable Clerk
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Windsor: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience in freight forwarding?
Experience:
- Accounts payable: 1 year (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: FIN3