Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger Clerk

What would you get for working here?

If you have the Sales and Purchase Ledger experience and skills we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive salary of between £24,000 and £26,375 p/a (dependent on experience)
• 8% Combined Pension Contribution (3% Ees / 5% Ers)
• 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a member of the finance team, this combined Sales and Purchase ledger role will see you directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

Key duties - Purchase Ledger:           

• Processing and scanning of supplier invoices.
• Cover for the weekly payment run.
• Supplier statement reconciliations.
• Maintenance of supplier details in SAGE.
• To respond to in-bound Purchase Ledger queries.

Key duties - Sales Ledger:       

• Raise sales invoices from despatch paperwork.
• Allocate monies received from customers & investigate any customer deductions.
• Liaise with customers to chase amounts due, including taking card payments over the phone.
• Help identify and escalate slow/ late payers to the FC & Commercial.
• Complete credit checks on new customers, recommending credit limits and payment terms.
• Maintenance of customer details in SAGE, including prices.
• To respond to in-bound Sales Ledger queries.

The successful candidate for this role will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:

• Previous experience in both Purchase Ledger & Sales Ledger, preferably within an FMCG business with major supermarkets as their customer base.
• Ability to enhance a well-established team (6 people in total) through team working, collaboration & continuous improvement.
• Confident user of EXCEL and operating systems, preferably SAGE 200.

So, who are we? If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road. 

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!