Triple Wimbledon champion Fred Perry founded his brand in 1952. He was the son of a cotton spinner, who played and fought his way through, always with style – and despite the establishment. Today, Fred Perry is a global community of over 370 employees, all inspired by the Laurel Wreath and what it represents

PURPOSE: 

We are recruiting for an Accounts Payable Clerk to join our established Finance department. You will have experience working with volume within a SME and relevant Accounts Payable experience. As the Accounts Payable Clerk, you will proactively deal with large volume of invoices and / or suppliers’ correspondences with accuracy and speed, reporting to the Accounts Payable Supervisor.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Processing Stock Invoices - matching to any PO's that have been 'goods receipted'
• Processing overhead Invoices/Credit notes to the correct Supplier account
• Processing invoices into the correct P&L nominals with accurate detail for the Management Accountant to report appropriately
  
• Processing invoices into the correct BS nominals with accurate detail for the Accountants Assistant to manage appropriately
• Processing invoice VAT to the relevant tax control account to ensure VAT returns can be completed correctly
• Matching payments to the relevant invoices
• Updating departmental trackers with latest invoices received and chasing authorisation
• Updating Accounting Systems with approved invoices in preparation for the next payment run
• Sending Remittances to suppliers after each payment has been approved on the bank
• Creating and reconciling the weekly BACS payments
• Creating and reconciling the weekly Transfers payments
• Liaising with Accounts Assistants to ensure payments have been recognised in the bank nominals and relevant supplier account
• Set up Monthly/quarterly rent payments to ensure rent is paid on time
  
• Urgently action any account suspensions
• Review Aged creditors to ensure all invoices and payments have been allocated
• Review Aged creditors and chase supplier statements
• Producing Accrual sheet for invoices that have been received but not yet approved
• Supplying support for requests to update supplier bank detail
• Process Customer and Accounts Receivable Refunds
• Process Sales Commission Invoices

THE PERSON:

• This is a great role for someone with at least 12 months experience working within Purchase Ledger or Accounts Payable functions.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Reliable, self-disciplined, speed and accuracy essential
• Team player
• Ability to work within set deadlines
• Good aptitude for IT – knowledge of software packages
• Experience working in a multi-currency environment
• Experience in analysing information

HOURS:

We actively encourage our teams to have a good work/life balance and so we are pleased to offer flexible working shifts at Fred Perry HQ. Our core shift hours are from 10am – 4.30pm and so employees can choose to start and finish early, or start and finish late. (i.e. work 8:00am-4:30pm, or 10:00am-6:30pm etc). We also have 30-minute early finish on Fridays.

As we continue to work in a more flexible way, the Head Office acts a brand hub, where we can all connect and collaborate with one another. This role is a mix of office based (London) and remote working. We will expect the employee to come into the office regularly for face-to-face meetings and to work alongside their team on collaborative projects.

BENEFITS:

We are proud to offer a wide range of benefits to all our staff, and continue to reassess what our community needs from us to thrive. We don’t want to be a good company to work for, we want to be a great one. Here are some things we currently offer:

• Annual performance-related bonus
• Competitive salary, reviewed every year
• Generous staff discount and regular sample sales
• Generous pension scheme with 8.5% company contribution
• Option to buy an extra 5 days holiday annually
• Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
• Life insurance
• Private healthcare
• Cycle to work scheme
• Early finish Fridays
• Season ticket loan
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Annual Birthday vouchers
• Regular opportunities to attend gigs / events

We actively welcome applications from people of all different backgrounds. Your CV will be submitted to hiring managers with all personal details hidden to ensure anonymity.