Accounts Payable Assistant

Urmston, England, gb

Do you have some experience of working in a fast-paced accounts environment, along with experience of working in a variety of currencies?

Are you highly organised, and able to prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines whilst producing a high quality of work?

Do you have the confidence to work effectively within a small team and interact with a range of key business stakeholders and colleagues?

If so, we have an opportunity for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join our busy Finance department here at Regatta, offering support within the team where necessary and being responsible for accurately maintaining group purchase ledgers and making payments to suppliers in a timely manner.

The Impact you will have in this role is: 

  • Processing invoices through our approval system
  • Coding invoices and entering onto the purchase ledger for both UK and Export companies.
  • Ensuring all invoices are processed in a timely manner for payment.
  • Maintaining purchase ledgers including creating new supplier accounts, deleting obsolete records, regular checks on ledger balances
  • Reconciling supplier statements at month end and year end.
  • Preparing BACs payments and posting direct debit payments to ledgers
  • Making urgent and non-UK payments via HSBC internet banking
  • Dealing with suppliers in a professional manner to resolve queries.
  • Maintenance of overseas ledgers invoice registers
  • Liaising with managers and the management accounts reporting team

    • As our future Accounts Payable Assistant, you will have: 

  • Experience working within a busy Accounts environment will be preferable 
  • Strong purchase ledger experience 
  • Experience of using purchase ledgers in a variety of currencies e.g., GBP, EUR, USD, PLN preferable 
  • High level of integrity as will have access to and work with sensitive information daily 
  • Good team worker 
  • Hard working and enthusiastic 
  • Proven track record of meeting tight deadlines 
  • Works accurately to produce high quality work 
  • Able to work on own initiative 
  • Highly organised with a flexible attitude to managing workload priorities 
  • Familiar with Microsoft Office package 
  • Strong Excel skills – VLOOKUP & Pivot Tables essential 
  • Able to pick up systems with ease and with accuracy 

    • A full job description outlining all deliverables and requirements for the above can be found attached to the advert on our careers page. 

    We can offer you: 

  • Discretionary profit share bonus 
  • Pension 
  • Staff discounts 
  • Access to company benefits website
  • 24 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
  • An extra day of annual leave for every 3 years service up to an additional 3
  • Birthday hours
  • Company walks
  • State of the art Head Office
  • A paid day off for volunteering
  • Free parking
  • Subsidised canteen and Starbucks
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Fitness suite
  • Shower facilities including hairdryers and GHD straighteners 

    • Our Regatta Family: 

    The Regatta Group supplies quality outdoor clothing and accessories through our 3 great brands - Regatta, Craghoppers and Dare2b - whether exploring the Amazon rainforest, walking your dog in the local park or cycling the Tour de France, we have what you need. 

    It’s a friendly, supportive family business – a place where bakers, dog walkers, book worms, students, parents, travellers, movie buffs, foodies, festival goers, musicians and more come together to create experiences consumers really appreciate. 

    The thing we all have in common, is that we share the same core values of Great Relationships and Entrepreneurial Spirit. 

    Our investment in the environment: 

    Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and you will have the opportunity to support our Group wide sustainability committee and put ideas into action and really make a difference to the world we live in! 

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