Accounts Payable Clerk

Job title –  Accounts Payable Clerk 

Salary – £27,500

Hours: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

Location: Battersea 

Join the Harvey & Brockless team, part of The Compleat Food Group, as an Accounts Payable Clerk.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in keeping our day-to-day finances running smoothly, processing purchase orders and invoices accurately and on time. Your work will help maintain strong, positive relationships with our suppliers while ensuring everything is properly recorded and organised.

Your duties will include processing purchase orders and invoices for the group whilst making sure payments are accurate, on time, and properly recorded. You will help keep the day-to-day finances running smoothly and support strong relationships with our suppliers.

Duties:

• Process supplier invoices and match invoices to orders accurately and in a timely manner.
• Enter supplier credit notes promptly.
• Respond to queries from suppliers on invoices, payments and outstanding balances.
• Respond effectively to supplier payment queries.
• Resolve unmatched and blocked invoices in a timely manner.
• Enter purchase orders on to the group’s financial system.
• Monitor and update open purchase orders.
• Monitor and resolve supplier debit balances.
• Obtain and reconcile supplier statements.
• File invoices and credit notes in a timely manner.
• Identify changes in supplier details and forward to supplier MDM.
• Report blocked and unmatched invoices on a weekly basis and resolve in a timely manner.
• Contribute to development and improvement of group’s purchase-to-pay processes.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Previous Accounts Payable experience
• Strong numerical skills. Good standard of literacy and effective written and verbal communicator.
• Understanding of purchasing processes.
• Able to deal with a demanding workload including conflicting demands on time.
• Strong Excel skills.

Benefits:

• 33 Days annual leave
• 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
• Online and High-street retailer discount scheme
• Employee well-being and community support groups
• Informal and Formal training opportunities with personalised online LMS platform
• Charity Initiatives and Team events
• 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid (Free Financial, Emotional and Practical Support)
• Physical Wellbeing Benefits – Free on demand exercise hub and various gym discounts.
• Online Wellbeing benefits
• Free Financial wellbeing – mortgage calculators

The Compleat Food Group fosters an inclusive, respectful culture where everyone feels safe, supported, and valued. We welcome diverse talent, knowing it drives exceptional results and a better workplace.

We are committed to Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect, we ensure all colleagues can thrive by bringing their whole selves to work. As an equal opportunity’s employer, we provide all the support you need to succeed.

Contact us with any questions about Diversity & Inclusion or accessibility during the application process.

Recruitment Agencies: 

We have a small, active and trusted Preferred Supplier List to assist us if required. We do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions. We only accept CV submissions for roles released to you directly by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you would be interested in working with us, please send a message to recruitment@compleatfood.com and should we have any roles we need additional support with we will reach out to you.