Purchase Ledger Clerk

Posted: 3rd April 2025

Terry Group Ltd are now recruiting for the below role:

Job Title:           Purchase Ledger Clerk

Department:   Finance & Administration

Report to:          Finance & Administration Manager

An employer you can trust

Terry Group Ltd are a British engineering company who have been working in the lift industry for more than 70 years. We design and manufacture our own lifts right here in Cheshire and fit them in homes and public buildings across the country and beyond. We are proud to provide our customers with nothing less than the outstanding quality, safety and service they expect from a lift provider they can trust.

 Your trusted responsibilities:

Join our team on a 12-month contract covering maternity leave, where you’ll play a key role in supporting our finance function. In this role, you will provide a professional and efficient service, closely monitoring how much is owed at all times. You’ll also be responsible for delivering accurate and timely information to support effective cash flow forecasting and reporting.

Essential Skills Base

• Training for the AAT qualification or AAT qualified is preferred.
• Basic Microsoft skills: Excel and Word. Intermediate level is preferable. Training on in house systems can be gained through in-house training programmes.
• Sage Accounts
• Organisational skills, time management skills, attention to detail, following and reviewing procedures.
• Ability to work as an individual, to be self-motivated as well as being able to work as part of team are key to this role.
• Able to communicate in a concise and efficient manner to gain best outcome.

Core responsibilities of the role:

• Matching, checking and coding purchase invoices
• Processing job invoices from sub-contractors
• Obtaining NIC’s and Building control Documentation from sub-contractors
• Preparing supplier payments
• Processing expenses
• Processing credit card expenditure
• Setting up of new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details
• Supplier statement reconciliation
• Managing petty cash
• Being first point of contact for all relevant supplier enquiries
• Customers – processing credit card payments
• Maintaining and improving relationships with customers, suppliers and all departments
• Liaise and update Line Manager with regards to work load and any issues

What you can expect from us:

• Negotiable salary
• 22 days holiday per year, plus statutory bank holidays and birthday day off.
• Company pension scheme
• 2 years salary death-in-service benefit from day one of employment
• Additional holidays after 5 years’ service
• Comprehensive in-house training programme to get you fully up-to-speed with the wide range of products manufactured.

How to apply

For all advertised vacancies please complete an application form and an equality and diversity form, which you can find on our website www.terrylifts.co.uk

Click to download:

Application Form

Equality And Diversity Form

Once you have downloaded the forms, please open them using Adobe Reader DC. This is a standard, free, PDF reader which can be accessed at https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader

Quoting Job Reference JR001, please send the completed forms, along with any supporting documentation, to email:  hr@terrylifts.co.uk

Postal Address:

HR Department

Terry Group Ltd

Longridge Trading Estate

Knutsford

Cheshire

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