Accounts Payable Assistant in Urmston

Location: Urmston
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Regatta Professional
Job Hours: Full-time

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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! 


    About Regatta Professional


    Regatta is a family owned company based in Manchester that prides itself on providing value for money clothing for any outdoor environment. With an unparalleled reputation in the outdoor clothing market and knowledge and skills learned from decades of steady growth, Regatta Professional is uniquely positioned to supply the promotional and corporate wear industry with outdoor uniforms and apparel.

    From waterproof jackets to safety footwear, the Regatta range is guaranteed to protect and look stylish in equal measure. With fabrics and product concepts used in the Regatta retail range providing the lead in terms of design and technicality, the Regatta Promotional and Corporate range brings high street style to the commercial market.

    The company has been trading in quality waterproof clothing for over 50 years but launched the Regatta brand 30 years ago, with a small but very successful range of waterproofs. In the intervening years, the brand has expanded into other product areas to offer a complete range for the outdoor user. Using simple values of quality, value, style and service, Regatta continues to grow and expand into Europe.

    With a fantastic reputation for quality and value, the Regatta consumer base has grown consistently with more and more customers happy with the look and performance of the entire range.

    The key to Regatta’s reputation still lies in the performance of the range. Using trademarked Regatta fabrics such as Isotex, Hydrafort and Symmetry, the products continue to offer fantastic protective qualities.

    Regatta has acted strongly to ensure all their products are manufactured to high ethical standards. Using third party independent audits of suppliers and with a solid ethical trading policy (available at www.regattaprofessional.com), Regatta aims to ensure that every element of their business is run in a socially responsible manner.

    To request a brochure or stockist information, please call 0161 749 1333 or email professional@regatta.com

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