About the Role
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You will be responsible for supporting the purchase ledger and wider finance team, ensuring invoices and queries are processed accurately and efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
1. Answering phone queries from suppliers and internal stakeholders
2. Inputting a high volume of supplier invoices with speed and accuracy
3. Managing central finance inboxes
4. Opening and processing post
5. Querying and resolving invoice and supplier issues
6. Investigating and resolving supplier queries
7. Maintaining the purchase ledger
8. Data entry and statement reconciliation
9. Working collaboratively with other departments
10. Supporting ad hoc finance tasks as required
Key Criteria:
11. Previous experience in a customer service or administration role with confidence handling telephone and e-mail queries in a high volume environment
12. Strong IT and database skills in Microsoft Office
13. Excellent organisation and time management skills
14. Confident communication skills with the ability to build professional relationships
15. Ability to manage your own workload and prioritise effectively
16. Accounts or ledger experience is advantageous but not essential
17. Experience using spreadsheets for data entry or reconciliation is desirable
18. AAT qualification is desirable
Benefits:
19. Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
20. Generous Pension Scheme
21. Sick Pay
22. Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
23. Share saver scheme
24. Eye test vouchers
25. Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
26. Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
27. Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch
28. Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
29. Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment
30. Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.