We have an exciting opportunity available to work for a leading Aerospace company based in Burnley as a Purchase to Pay Assistant within their Finance Team. This role will be to cover maternity leave until end of June 2025.

The jobholder will report into the Finance Function and will be responsible for ensuring that invoices are processed efficiently by working with Accounts Payable, Finance and operational users to resolve any queries quickly so as to avoid late payment of invoices. You will work with key users and management to support P2P process knowledge and improvements

The purpose of the role is to support the business to pay its suppliers on time, and support the finance team with ad-hoc tasks where required.

PRINCIPLE ACTIVITIES

• Contribute to achieving the purchase to pay (P2P) objectives set by the group
  
• Use the SAP Cockpit platform and help users clear their supplier invoice discrepancies (production and non-production)
  
• Investigate the root cause of supplier invoice discrepancies and support with improvements
  
• Generate and challenge KPI’s and analysis.
  
• Assist the Finance department in maintaining the goods received not invoiced (GRNI).
  
• Statement reconciliation work with Shared Services including improvement of the supplier returns and credit note pro
  
• Supplier data cleanse project
  
• Supplier debt recovery
  
• Other ad hoc duties, as required
  
  MANDATORY EXPERTISE
  
  Essential:
  
• Proactive approach and willingness to learn
  
• Strong Excel skills
  
• Strong ability to analyse and challenge data.
  
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
  
• Thorough and accurate
  
• A good team player
  
• Must be able to take responsibility for tasks
  
  Desirable:
  
• Purchase ledger experience
  
• Experience in an office/ finance based role
  
• Experience working with other functions of Microsoft office.
  
• Accounting knowledge
  
  Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy
  
  Administration; filing; e-filing; GDPR; secretarial; data entry; data input; Excel; Word; Outlook; Access; MS Office; booking system; business support; database management; document control; accounts payable; purchase ledger; finance assistant; finance clerk; accounts administrator; SAP; Cockpit