Accounts Assistant

Position: Accounts Assistant (Permanent)
Role:
Account Assistant (Purchase Ledger)

Salary: £25,000 - £35,000

Location:

Lacock, Wiltshire

Working Hours:

Monday – Friday

Stonegate Farmers are seeking an Accounts Assistant to join our financial department based out of our Head Office in Lacock, Wiltshire. Reporting into the Financial Accountant, you will ownership of the accounts payable function across several entities; providing a critical role in the effective management of all areas of accounts payable in a growing organisation. Ideally, you’d be AAT qualified, however study support is available.

About Stonegate Farmers Ltd

Stonegate Farmers Ltd is an integrated free range and organic egg business organised across three divisions comprising farming and agriculture, egg packing and cooked egg processing. Established in 1926 and under new ownership since 2016, we have grown into one the largest free-range and organic egg producers within the UK.

Moving millions of mother nature’s most fragile food items every day takes finesse and know how. We work closely with our producers to collect, grade and package each individual egg. We deliver daily from hen houses right across the country to the most exclusive restaurants and to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets, together with first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

So many fresh eggs requires fresh thinking therefore we only employ the most enthusiastic people for our operations, who have hearts of gold – just like our eggs!

Role & Responsibilities:

* Timely accurate processing of AP invoices from receipt to payment

* Timely resolution of enquiries or disputes both internal and external, escalating where necessary

* Preparing and processing weekly payment runs, company credit cards and expenses payments

* Reconciliation of supplier statements and aged creditor balances

* Management and maintenance of all AP master data

* Support external audit process

* Continually reviewing procedures and systems to identify and deliver business process improvement

* Encourage adoption of AP best practices across the company;
Monitoring, training and driving compliance

* Ad hoc duties as required.

Person Specification:

* Able to display our company values:
Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team & Diversity

* Thorough and methodical, demonstrating excellent attention to detail

* Articulate, with excellent communication skills - both written and verbal

* Ability to prioritise and organise work, and work to deadlines

* A team player who knows when to ask for help, but is also happy to give support

Qualifications /

Experience:

* At least two years’ experience in an Accounts Payable role

* Preferably AAT Qualified

* Experience of all areas of accounts payable

* Multi-currency experience

* Experience managing high volumes of invoices over a multi company site

* Experience of working in a finance environment

* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel