New Permanent Opportunity
Senior Purchase Ledger Clerk
Monday - Friday (09:00am - 17:00pm)
£27,000.00 - £29,000.00 per annum dependent on experience
Based in Skelmersdale

Duties will include:
· Receiving, date-stamping, organising, and maintaining stock and service invoices.
· Matching stock invoices to open Goods Receipt Purchase Orders (GRPO's) in SAP checking quantities, prices and supporting details, and processing correctly matched invoices for payment in accordance with agreed payment terms and company procedures.
· Investigating missing goods receipts, quantity differences, and price discrepancies, and other invoice queries, liaising with suppliers, Warehouse, Stock Control and Purchasing to identify and resolve issues.
· Recording discrepancy actions and updates accurately in SAP and the Open GRPO spreadsheet, monitoring outstanding items and following up with the relevant departments until resolution.
· Processing service invoices, credit notes, returns-to-supplier (RTS) paperwork, and direct-delivery transactions, ensuring the correct supporting documentation and authorisation are obtained.
· Maintaining accurate supplier master data in SAP, including changes to supplier addresses and bank details, ensuring all amendments are appropriately verified and authorised in line with company procedures.
· Responding to supplier queries, obtaining missing invoices and credit notes, resolving delivery-stop issues, and reconciling supplier statements and outstanding transactions, investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly.
· Preparing BACS payment proposals and one-off payments, creating payment templates within our online banking platform, submitting payments for the appropriate authorisation, and issuing remittance advice to suppliers.
· Producing regular finance reports, and credit balance reports, ensuring information is accurate, up to date and available within the required deadlines.
· Assisting with month-end purchase ledger procedures, supplier account reconciliations, and financial reporting, ensuring transactions are processed accurately and within required deadlines.
· Obtaining and reconciling monthly statements for the top 20 suppliers, investigating discrepancies, and following up on outstanding invoices, credits, and payments.
· Preparing monthly analysis of supplier retrospective (retro) claims and off-invoice arrangements, checking calculations, and supporting information, and escalating discrepancies or inconsistencies to Purchasing.


Skills and experience required:
· Previous experience in a Purchase Ledger environment
· Strong attention to detail, with the ability to process high volumes of financial transactions accurately and efficiently.
· Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise daily deadlines and manage recurring weekly and monthly tasks effectively.
· Confidence in investigating discrepancies, resolving queries, and communicating professionally with suppliers and internal departments.
· Competence in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook, with experience maintaining and managing documentation across shared files and folders.
· Sound judgement when handling supplier information, payment details, and confidential financial records.
· Experience supervising or supporting other members of staff, providing guidance on workloads, work commitments, and prioritisation of tasks (desirable).
· Working knowledge of SAP or a comparable financial management system.
· Experience using online banking platforms for preparing or administering payments (desirable).