New opportunity not to be missed DCS Group has an exciting opportunity available for a Purchase Ledger Assistant to join the team based in Banbury . You will join us on a permanent basis, working 40 hours per week and in return you will receive a competitive salary plus excellent benefits. Would you like the opportunity to work with some of the world's largest brands? DCS is the UK's official sales and distribution company for P&G, Gillette, Unilever, Colgate, SC Johnson and more and we are looking to recruit a Purchase Ledger Assistant . DCS is a Top 250 private company in the UK - if you wish to be part of our expanding company which offers exciting opportunities for career progression, we look forward to hearing from you. The role: Working within a team to ensure all daily tasks are completed, which includes entering Invoices & Debit notes onto Sage. Investigating discrepancies & raising debit notes when required. Logging queries onto Overdue Checker. Daily payment runs. Carrying out any other duties as requested by the Purchase Ledger Manager including covering work as and when required. Key responsibilities as our Purchase Ledger Assistant include: - NON-STOCK INVOICES . Determining nominal/product codes and dimensions, or liaising with Purchase Ledger Manager, Management Accountant or Finance Director for nominal code. Matching up with Delivery Note if appropriate. Numbering and entering on to Purchase Ledger in Sage. Scanning copies of all invoices put into the ledger. Recording onto Overdue Checker to log distribution of invoices to be signed off by relevant authorised personnel. Raising claim or query if required. Updating Overdue Checker once signed off. Reconciling Credit Notes received from suppliers against the ledger. - BACK TO BACK invoices (mainly customers invoices for retro or promotional agreements) - logging and sending to Data Integrity for coding and approval. Take photocopies of everything we send them. Chasing them up with a weekly report and liaising with Credit Control to ensure they have not been deducted. - STOCK INVOICES . Holiday cover and assisting during busy times - matching with appropriate Delivery Notes and entering on to Sage. Investigating discrepancies and raising Debit Notes where appropriate. Entering Debit Notes for overcharges on instructions from Buyers. Logging queries on Overdue Checker. Reconciling Credit Notes received against the ledger. SSD. - RECEIPTING . Printing the order and receipt from SAGE X3 for deliveries daily to match what has been booked into Locator. - GENERAL DUTIES . Filing. Dealing with the post. Cross checking colleague's payment runs, stock invoices and bank details. DCS's contra's for internal stock movements/transfers. Contra with Manu ledger once a month. Supplier uplifts. New suppliers. Sales Ledger Contras. End of month checks. Clearing the dept's 'in tray' and dealing with ad hoc supplier queries. Entering Direct Debit payments from the bank statement onto SAGE. - KEY ACCOUNT RESPONSIBILITY - Managing a set of defined key accounts - incl dealing with queries, maintaining spreadsheets (if applicable) and statement reconciliation. - PAYMENTS - Making BACS, CHAPS, SEPA and INTL payments to suppliers. In GBP, EUR or USD. Assisting with running the daily SAGE BACS payment runs. Manu payments. Our ideal Purchase Ledger Assistant will have the following key skills: - Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent in English & Maths as a minimum - Computer Literacy, with fast and accurate keyboard skills and a working knowledge of Sage, Excel, spreadsheets & databases - Minimum of 1 years' experience of working in Purchase Ledger - Ability to communicate at a variety of different levels - Time Management and Prioritising abilities - Ability to pay attention to detail - Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines - Proven numerical abilities Click 'Apply' now to become our Purchase Ledger Assistant . We'd love to hear from you