Job Description

Job title: Purchase Ledger Assistant

Location: Cheadle, Greater Manchester (Hybrid)

Employment type: Full-time, permanent

Salary: £29,000 a year

Like numbers, enjoy getting things right, and fancy doing it in the wine trade? We’re looking for a Purchase Ledger Assistant to join our Finance team at our head office in Cheadle.

Boutinot is an independent wine producer, importer and distributor. We make wine at our own estates, including Henners in East Sussex, and work with producers around the world to supply independent merchants, restaurants, bars and some of the UK’s best-known retailers. Our head office is at Boundary House in Cheadle.

The role

You’ll help run our purchase ledger day to day, working closely with our Purchase Ledger Supervisor and colleagues across the business. It’s about making sure our suppliers are paid accurately and on time, and that the Finance team can rely on the numbers.

What you’ll be doing

• Processing and coding supplier invoices, and matching them to purchase orders and deliveries
• Preparing UK and overseas supplier payment runs
• Reconciling supplier statements and intercompany accounts
• Processing staff expenses and company card transactions
• Keeping the ledger tidy and helping with month-end
• Answering supplier and colleague queries, including through the shared Finance inbox

What we’re looking for

• Good with numbers, careful, and someone who notices when something doesn’t add up
• Organised, and able to keep on top of regular deadlines
• Comfortable using Excel and Outlook, and happy to learn new systems
• Clear, friendly and professional with suppliers and colleagues

Experience in purchase ledger, accounts payable or finance administration, or an AAT qualification (or working towards one), would be a bonus, but isn’t essential. We’ll train you in our systems and how we work.

What you’ll get

• £29,000 a year, 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, a day off for your birthday and quarterly wellbeing days
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 7% employer pension contribution
• life insurance
• AXA private healthcare (after length of service eligibility) plus an Employee Assistance Programme and GP24
• Funded WSET wine training opportunity (after probation), if you’d like to learn more about what we sell
• A staff wine account
• On-site gym at Boundary House
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes (after length of service eligibility)