Purchase Ledger Assistant - Grangemouth

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

11/4/2024

Job Description

GAC UK employs a team of over 350 specialists spread across 25+ branches throughout the UK, Ireland and Gibraltar. Our focus is on providing integrated shipping, logistics and marine solutions to diverse industries, from offshore oil & gas and renewable energy to every aspect of the shipping sector, from cruise liners and superyachts to tankers and dry bulk vessels. Additionally, our teams dedicated to marine leisure, sports, events, automotive, and aviation sectors offer specialised services tailored to these niche markets. The highest standards of customer service, operational excellence and delivery are central to everything we do.

We are currently looking for a Purchase Ledger Assistant to join our team in Grangemouth.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Processing high volumes of purchase invoices daily
• Coding of overhead invoices and sending for authorisation
• Supplier reconciliations
• Maintaining the Purchase Ledger
• Arranging supplier payments (preparing GBP BACS payment runs and arranging overseas payments)
• Providing holiday cover for team members
• Additional ad-hoc duties to support the finance department
  
  

Job Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• Two years minimum experience working within a fast-paced office environment
• Purchase Ledger experience preferred but not essential as full training will be provided
• Excellent communication and organisation skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft applications preferred
• Ability to work extremely well within a team and to own initiative
  
  

The Package

Benefits

GAC gives you the opportunity to work for an employer who is committed to offering all our staff an enjoyable and rewarding career, with significant training and development prospects. In addition, you will receive a variety of benefits including:

• 38 days’ annual leave per year (inclusive of bank holidays) plus a day off on your birthday
• Access to Vitality at Work Scheme
• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Eyecare scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• Retail discounts scheme
  
  

In 2021, we launched our ten-year sustainability programme – MARS30. We are committed to “growing long term customer relationships across multiple products, whilst significantly reducing our environmental impact, improving the well-being of our people, and influencing our stakeholders to do the same.” We will accomplish our mission by completing objectives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

At GAC UK, who you are is just as important as what you do. The GAC Spirit reflects our culture across the company, emphasising loyalty and understanding between management and staff. We recognise that people’s lives extend far beyond their jobs. By promoting a healthy combination of work and play we achieve a happier workforce, - capable of delivering service excellence. We have a team of 16 Mental Health First Aiders across the UK and a Wellbeing Working Group who meet monthly and regularly launch new internal wellbeing initiatives.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and joined the Diversity in Maritime Charter to underline our commitment to take tangible steps to optimise the diversity within our organisation.

In January 2023, Macmillan Cancer Support became our official charity of the year. Together, GAC UK and Macmillan Cancer Support will help people with cancer and their loved ones live life as fully as they can.

If you think you have what it takes to become part of the GAC UK team, we look forward to receiving your application.