Purchase Ledger Full Time

Confidential
Starting Salary from £23,500 to £26,250 per annum (depending on skills, knowledge and experience)
Permanent | Full-time | All-year Round (52 weeks per year)

Our Purchase Ledger clerk is leaving and we are seeking an experienced and well-organised member of staff to run the Purchase Ledger. Felsted School’s Finance Department has a team of eight and we are looking for someone who is friendly, personable and approachable with a ‘can do’ approach. The main duties of the role will be processing and coding purchase invoices, ensuring prompt payments, reconciliation, remittance and liaising with budget holders and suppliers.

It is essential that the successful person has prior experience of running a purchase ledger and worked in a similar role within a busy environment. You should be able to communicate effectively, have close attention to detail, with good analytical, interpersonal and problem-solving abilities. We welcome applications from those who have any AAT qualifications or experience in using the Finance systems WCBS PASS or Lightyear.

Further information and a full job description can be found within the ‘Role Information Pack’.

This role is a permanent position working full-time (Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm), all-year round with a salary from £23,500 to £26,250 per annum (depending on skills, knowledge and experience).

Benefits include free life assurance and parking, contributory pension scheme (matched at 4%), lunch on full days worked, unlimited use of the Felsted Gym and pool facilities, subsidised on-site Coffee Shop and membership to Felsted Connect; an online multi-platform engagement tool where employees have access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and offers from online and high-street retailers.

Felsted is a leading day and boarding independent school based in a stunning village campus in North Essex. Founded in 1564 by Richard Lord Riche, who had been a Lord Chancellor under King Edward VI, Felsted today provides an exceptional holistic education to approximately 1100 boys and girls aged four to eighteen. We celebrated our 450th anniversary in 2014, one of only a handful of schools in the country that have claimed this historic milestone. We employ more than 160 teachers and 440 operational staff in a community orientated environment, ensuring our pupils receive the very best in learning and co-curricular activities.

We are rated ‘Excellent in every aspect’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.

Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 23 May 2022 at 10:00am.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 26 May 2022.

If you would like to apply for this position, please visit our website (url removed)/employment-opps to complete our online application process.

Felsted is committed to equal opportunities and maintaining a safe and secure environment for all pupils and a ‘culture of vigilance’ to safeguard and protect all in its care, and to all aspects of its ‘Safeguarding (Child Protection and Staff Behaviour) Policy’. All employees are subject to pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check