Accounts Payable Clerk

Salary/Rate:Negotiable
Job type:Perm
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is currently working with a rapidly growing company in Leeds, West Yorkshire, that is looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Clerk to join their finance team.

This role would be perfect for someone wanting to develop their skills within Accounts Payable and work with a really experienced finance team.

What will you be doing?

  • Managing, processing and resolving invoice queries in Proactis, AX and SAPP
  • Acting as the first point of contact to vendors for questions, support and issues around invoicing and payment inquiries.
  • Build relationships and work closely with the Procurement team.
  • Manage invoices in Proactis, AX and SAP, including monitoring the invoice approval queues and working with Finance for coding on invoices that get sent manually.
  • Working across multiple entities and currencies to process large volumes of invoices with accuracy.
  • Reconciling statements and investigating any discrepancies, through to resolution.
  • Assisting with month end tasks including preparation of accruals for the finance team.
  • Working on reducing debit balances and cleansing of accounts to keep the ledgers current and maintained
  • Maintain & support accounting and accounting control procedures.

What skills are we looking for?

  • 2+ years of AP/accounting/finance experience in a general office environment, demonstrating a general knowledge of accounting systems.
  • Experience with Proactis, AX, D365 and/or SAP as a user or support a plus
  • Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
  • Experience of working in a high volume input role
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
  • Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Experience of working within finance and audit rules and regulations is highly advantageous.

What's on offer?

  • Hybrid working. Monday / Tuesday / Friday in office, other 2 from home.
  • Free on-site parking.
  • Opportunity to develop within an experienced team.
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Life Insurance
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Annual performance related pay review
  • Flu and Eye Test voucher

Contact Emma Johnsen for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

Job ref: EJ/5835Post Date: 02.05.25

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