A Vacancy Exists for Accounts Payable Administrator

reporting to the Financial Controller

Role

The successful candidate will join an experienced team of 23 finance professionals. The role is to maintain the accounts payable ledger, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of all account payable transactions for the group’s Irish operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Matching and checking invoices to stock delivery dockets.
• Keying invoices on to the creditors’ ledger, ensuring all invoices are coded to the correct cost account.
• Daily interaction with the Purchasing Division.
• Resolving queries with Suppliers.
• Preparation and issuing of payments (computer cheques, bank transfers and manual cheques).
• Dealing with month end issues and procedures, particularly monthly reconciliation of supplier accounts and calculation of month-end accruals.
• Ensuring all procedures in the accounts payable function are in compliance with the requirements of SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley).
• Maintaining an effective and tidy filing system.
• Other ad-hoc duties.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• At least 2-3 years experience in an accounts payable environment;
• A good working knowledge of double entry accounting system;
• Must have experience with a computerised accounting package and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, specifically Micrcosoft Excel

Skills and Behaviours:            

o       The ideal candidate will be organised, precise, curious, focused and persistent.

o       Ability to resolve issues with Suppliers in a timely manner

o       Excellent written, oral and communication skills.

o       Be a team player and have high personal confidence, ability to liaise with other business divisions

• The ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Ability to work on their own initiative;

o       Be customer focused and International minded.

o       Have a high attention to detail.

o       High autonomy: Be able to initiate or create projects and processes that are required to meet the job objectives

o       Good sense of priorities, resistance to stress and can work under pressure of time line.

• To be flexible and willing to carry out overtime as necessary when required;

• Forward thinking attitude towards improvement is essential;
• Attention to detail will also be a necessary attribute of the successful candidate.

Wicklow Recruitment Ltd.
58 Main Street, Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow.

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