Purchase Ledger Assistant - FTC

Overview

Nisbets Limited are currently recruiting for a Purchase Ledger Assistant on an 8 Month Fixed Term Contract to join our Finance team, supporting the smooth running of our Purchase Ledger and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our accounts payable processes.

As a Purchase Ledger Assistant at Nisbets, you will be part of a collaborative team responsible for processing invoices, resolving queries, and maintaining supplier accounts. You will play a key role in supporting payment runs and month-end reconciliations, contributing to the overall efficiency of the finance function. At least 12 months experience in a purchase ledger environment required.

This is a fast-paced and varied role, requiring excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills. You will work closely with colleagues across the business and external suppliers, using a range of systems and tools to ensure timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

This role will be based at our Fourth Way office in Avonmouth, with flexibility to work from home as part of a hybrid working pattern following a period of training.

• Monitor and register incoming invoices for UK and European entities, ensuring accurate data entry.
• Resolve invoice queries efficiently and professionally.
• Manage supplier accounts, including regular statement reconciliations.
• Assist with monthly reconciliations and the month-end close of the Accounts Payable ledger.
• Generate manual and system payments in line with company procedures.
• Provide ad hoc support to ensure the smooth running of the ledger and wider finance function.

• At least 1+ year working in a Purchase Ledger or Accounts Payable role.
• Good level of computer literacy, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• GCSEs in Maths and English.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
• Motivated, organised, and able to manage time effectively.

Nisbets is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all colleagues. We aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only colleagues but also our potential future colleagues are treated fairly and with dignity and respect.

Therefore, please inform us of any reasonable adjustments that we may need to make to the application or interview process.

Here at Nisbets, we aim high and we dream big. From a one-man operation in 1983, to the UK s market leader today its always been our determination to hit whatever goal we set ourselves, no matter how big. And we’ve done it time and time again.

We’re looking for experts. Passionate, forward thinkers who obsess about our customers as much as we do. We need strivers, trailblazers and problem solvers who are as determined to grow, develop and succeed as we are.

We’re determined to take the next step. But we need your help to do it. It’s all about you.

If you’re looking for a forward-thinking business on which to leave your mark; where your work is valued; where you’ll test your skills and then develop them further than you thought you could - Nisbets is for you.

You’ll be pushing the boundaries with us, day in day out. You’ll work in a fast-paced, ever changing environment. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of other experts around the business, bringing big ideas to life, and play a leading role in taking our journey to the next level.

We are a business with heart. From the small indie diner to the Michelin-star restaurant, Nisbets deliver the equipment they need to excel. If you join our team you’ll be working in a family-owned business that isn’t afraid to let you grow. That understands the value of innovation. And that puts our impact on the environment, our commitment to ethical trading and our determination to being a fully transparent business at the forefront of all we do.

Ready to take the next step with us? Apply today.