About Crown Lift Trucks Ltd

Since its entry into the material handling industry in the 1960s, Crown Equipment Corporation has earned a reputation for exceptional product design, engineering and manufacturing of its award-winning line of electric lift trucks.  From our smallest pallet truck to our highest lifting VNA truck, our goal is to always provide the user with the safest, most efficient and ergonomic forklift truck possible.  Crown supports customers with a wide selection of electric forklift trucks ranging from pallet trucks to very narrow-aisle VNA trucks.

Our brand promise is:

“Crown designs, manufactures, distributes, services and supports material handling products that provide customers with superior value.”

Quality and performance are the foundation of Crown’s success. Since our inception, our company culture has always been about people performing and working as a team to ensure that quality is built into every forklift truck we make.

Crown’s headquarters, manufacturing facilities and network of branches offer diverse and challenging careers in a broad range of professional and vocational roles.

Job Description

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Payable Clerk in a strongly growing business based full-time in our Basingstoke office.

The advertised Accounts Payable Clerk role will sit alongside the existing Accounts Payable Clerk and have shared responsibility between the two employees of the tasks listed below.

·        Process purchase invoices and credit notes through Vantage, PTP and Baan

  • Process intercompany invoices and credit notes through Vantage, PTP and Baan
  • Review of employee credit card expenses on a monthly basis
  • Administration of engineers expenses on a monthly basis
  • Process Bacs and manual payments in Baan and banking platform ensuring approvals in line with DOA
  • Post and allocate payments in Baan
  • Monthly reconciliation of supplier accounts to supplier statements
  • Respond to AP queries and resolve discrepancies with suppliers
  • Set up new and maintain suppliers
  • AP month end and year end processing including but not limited to
    • Reconcile AP ledger to the GL
    • Run AP aged creditor listing and clear debit balances
    • General overhead accruals and prepayment postings
    • Intercompany reconciliations on a monthly basis
    • Assist with audit matters
  • Assist with AP payments forecast and manage payments to targets
  • Comply with policies, procedures and internal controls including DOA (approval authorities)
  • Maintain AP records and ensure processes are documented and kept up to date
  • All other AP related tasks and ad hoc projects

Person Specification

  • Transactional based role focusing on the day-to-day underpinnings of the accounts payable process
  • Ability to effectively process and manage a high volume of transactional and processing work
  • Pro-active ‘can do’ approach
  • Experience of intercompany posting and reconciliation desired but not required
  • Team player
  • Tenacious with the ability to challenge non-compliance
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to communicate clearly in a professional manner by phone, email and face to face
  • Confident personality and able to use own initiative without constant supervision

 

Person Specification

  • Ideally a professionally qualified (AAT) clerk with 5 years or more experience in accounts payable
  • Ability to effectively process and manage a high volume of transactional and processing work
  • Pro-active ‘can do’ approach
  • Team player
  • Tenacious with the ability to challenge non-compliance
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to communicate clearly in a professional manner by phone, email and face to face
  • Experience of working through change and driving efficiencies
  • Experience of handling queries and successful resolution of complex situations
  • Well organised with the ability to plan work load and work to deadlines
  • Confident personality and able to use own initiative without constant supervision

Vacancy Details

Hours of Work:

Monday to Friday, 37 hours

 Package:

 Competitive Salary

Holidays:

25 days holiday

Pension:

Company pension plan

At Crown, we know that our employees are the driving force behind our success in the material handling industry. We cultivate a culture of passionate people and inspired innovation. In fact, throughout Crown’s history, more than 1,000 employees have reached a 25-year milestone, and we are proud to have travelled their career paths with them.

From employee training and development to competitive compensation packages, we invest in our employees, knowing that people are always at the core of what moves us forward.

In addition to financial remuneration and participation, we our offer our employees various social benefits including but not limited to:

  • Company pension plan.
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Excellent discount scheme with access to the best perks from some of the UK’s biggest brands. 
  • Employee assistance programme.

Please contact us via our website at:

If you have any further queries regarding this job, please do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Team at Crown Lift Trucks Ltd on 01256 300211 or via uk.recruitment@crown.com

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