Purchase Ledger Clerk

Purchase Ledger Clerk

Seaham, Durham, Full Time 

• Competitive Salary & Great Benefits Package.
• Company Pension.
• Life Insurance.
• Employee Benefits Platform.
• Employee Assistance Programme & 24/7 GP Access.

Prima Cheese Limited is a leading award winning, multi-site cheese processing company. Operating within B2B markets with an outstanding reputation for quality, consistency, and service. Committed to delivering success and excellence to both our customer and teams in a supportive, collaborative working environment.

With a proud 28-year heritage and continuous expansion this is a fantastic opportunity for a strategic, dynamic leader to join us in our exciting journey to continue to drive growth of business in new channels and accounts.

Opportunity 

We are looking for a diligent, detail-oriented and experienced Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our Finance Team.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to get on with colleagues and clients. They will have a general understanding of both the individual departments and overall, Company objectives and provide support to the senior management in achieving those objectives. They must promote a favourable image of the Company at all times.

Responsibilities:

• Process purchase invoices in the accounting system.
• 3-way matching of purchase orders, goods receipt notes and purchase invoices.
• Proactively liaise with suppliers for queries and reconciliations.
• Create creditor reports on a timely basis.
• Assist with the preparation and submission of VAT returns.
• Daily bank balances reports.
• Accurately prepare payments for authorisation/stock sheets for stock valuation.
• Assist with month end procedure as required.
• Tasks and project work as required.
• Ad hoc duties as and when required.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of working with Sage 200 would be an advantage, and knowledge of automated purchase requisition software, such as Draycir, SAP ,MS Business Central, etc, would be advantageous.
• Bookkeeping skills.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience in a similar role.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Work well as part of a team/individually.
• Excellent communication skills, verbally and written.
• Confident, enthusiastic individual with the ability to manage all relationships with suppliers and internal contacts and continuously exceed expectations.
• Must be capable of working with attention to detail, accurately and diligently to agreed timescales.

Prima continually invests in our people the successful candidate will be joining a forward-thinking environment, committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The successful candidate will report directly to our Head of Finance.

www.primacheese.com

Prima Cheese Limited is an inclusive and diverse workplace, if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please contact hr@primacheese.com 

Closing Date 27^th February 2025