Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.
Overview of role
Location: Liverpool
Working within our Accounts Payable team, this role is responsible for the accurate processing of invoices and prompt payment of suppliers. The main duties include a high volume of invoice processing ensuring that all departmental and company standards are adhered to whilst handling and resolving internal and external customer queries in a professional manner.
Key Accountabilities
* Input of invoices onto SAP, taking ownership for quantity and price queries to ensure invoices are accurately processed and paid
* Manage own workload and responsible for issue escalation to senior team members.
* Process all purchases (supplier invoices) and refunds (credit notes) and analysing purchases by expense type (coding invoices)
* Obtain invoice authorisation
* Account for the correct treatment of VAT on all invoices
* Maintain supplier master accounts by liaising with Master Data
* Reconcile supplier accounts and resolve differences
* Deal with supplier account queries via telephone and email and resolve queries promptly
* Resolve significant issues (e.g., final demand letters) promptly
The Right Person
* Significant experience within a large AP Department
* Comprehensive knowledge of using an ERP System and will have mainly dealt with Invoice processing and a Purchase to Pay process using Purchase Orders
* Have worked with invoice capture and validation tools
* Be knowledgeable about OCR, Scanning, Storing and workflow technology
* Have Excel skills at least to intermediate level
* Have considerable SAP experience
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