Accounts Payable Clerk

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Accounts Assistantlooking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

Brief description
Our Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) are looking for an experienced account professional to join their accounts team. The successful candidate will ideally have 3 years+ experience in all aspects of the accounts role as this is a varied fulfilling role.

Purpose of the role
The role will be the primary point of contact for purchase ledger and credit control for CTS (part of SFS). You will have responsible for the entire end to end process.

Duties and responsibilities

Matching, batching and coding of a high volume and value of invoices

Ensure supplier statement reconciliations are being performed and ensure integrity of profit and loss balances

Resolving all invoice / order queries within a tight time frame

Responsible for invoicing and collection of all CTS revenue

Resolving all invoice / order queries for customers within a tight time frame

Daily cashbook

Assisting with month end accounting

Preparation of payments

Other general duties and requested

About You

Skills
Essential Skills

Proven purchase ledger experience

Proven credit control experience

Confident with excel to intermediate level

High level of accuracy and attention to detail

Well organised and dependable

Ability to work under pressure and achieve deadlines

Presentable and able to conduct themselves in a professional manner

Accounts Payable experience

Desirable Skills

Ability to work as part of a team but also on their own initiative

Good knowledge of double entry book keeping

Experience of windows based accounting packages, preferably Access Dimensions

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours
40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm (one hour for lunch).

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

About Us

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave

Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate

Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees

Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension

Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment

Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more

Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year

Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.