Accounts Payable Controller

Telford, England, United Kingdom

4/15/2025

Job title Accounts Payable Controller

Department Accounts

Reports to Senior Financial Accountant

The Primary responsibilities of the Post Holder will include:

• Processing of all purchase invoices.
• Ensuring procedures are followed for authorisation to meet prompt payment by due date.
• Reconciling supplier statements monthly.
• Ensuring supplier queries are dealt with relating to price or quantity in a prompt manner
• Running the monthly BACS run.
• Resolving invoice queries, all queries are to be recorded on a query log.
• Preparing the accounts payable reserve at month end.
• Preparing the freights payable reserve at month end.
• Requesting booking in (BIL) of Service/contracts
• Credit checks of new vendors and with setting up within SAP
• Assist with counting of petty cash on a monthly basis, and ensuring that this reconciles to the SAP ledger.
• Assist with a range of office, administrative and ad-hoc finance related tasks as required.
• Assist with month end management accounts and financial year end procedures.
• Support Senior Financial Accountant with the submission of Quarterly Bill of Discharge submission, to HMRC.
• Support and complete monthly/quarterly ONS surveys.
• Senior Financial Accountant with the submission of Quarterly Bill of Discharge submission, to HMRC
• Ensuring compliance with and adherence to ETL Quality Management, Environmental Management, Information Security and Health & Safety Policies and Procedures and all statutory legislation associated with these any other duties as requested from time to time.
  
  

Note: In addition to these functions, Employees are required to carry out any other adhoc duties as may be reasonably required.

Job location: Telford, Shropshire

Duties/responsibilities

• To ensure compliance and adherence to Epson Telford Limited Quality and Environmental Management and H & S Policies and Procedures and all Statutory Legislation associated with these.
• To ensure that payments are raised and authorized in accordance with the ETL Payment Policies.
• To ensure Compliance with SEC J-Sox regime.
• Ensure that all Group reconciliations are accurate and comply with Group Procedures and Policies.
• To ensure all Data and Paperwork is accurate and processed correctly, especially transactions within ETL’s Banking System.
• To check ones work and double check the work received from others.
  
  

Qualifications

Essential:

• GCSE Math/English
• AAT/CIMA Trainee
  
  

Desirable:

• 12 Months experience
• Good progress towards a Professional qualification.
• Evidence of knowledge and understanding of Business Process
  
  

Experience Required

Essential:

• 12 Months experience within an accounting environment
  
  

Desirable:

• Experience with use of SAP
• Good progress towards a Professional qualification.
• Continually looking to improve financial processes.