Accounts Payable Assistant

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking an Accounts Payable Assistant based at our Kegworth Head Office. We are fast-paced, and hugely customer-driven, always looking to innovate, develop, and improve what we do, and this creates the opportunity for you to develop and grow your career with us. Our people are friendly, open, and approachable, hugely supportive, and we have undergone high growth and great change over the past 5 years and expect to again double in size over the next 5 years.

Accounts Payable Assistant  
Permanent – Hybrid – work 2 days from home
Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 5 pm and Friday 8:30 am – 4 pm

Reward & Benefits:

• Annual bonus
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Purchase additional holidays 
• Life assurance 
• Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
• GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
• Cheers – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
• Free onsite parking 

What you’ll be doing as an Accounts Payable Assistant 
You will assist in promptly processing all invoices received and, when duly authorised, process them for payment within agreed terms and conditions.
 
Key responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Assistant

• You will work with the AP Manager, in ensuring all work required is completed accurately and on time.
• Register all invoices on receipt to ensure the appropriate period is charged with the relevant expense.
• Gain appropriate authorisation in line with the amount and type of expense, for arranging payment of each invoice.
• Matching supplier invoices with purchase orders.
• Resolving supplier queries.
• Reconciliation of allocated supplier statements, and to take the appropriate action ensuring the ledger represents a true and fair position in relation to each company.
• Assist in accurately making payment to suppliers of goods and services, in line with the agreed terms.
• Any other task as may be deemed necessary from time to time by management.

About you
We are looking for previous experience of working in Accounts Administration and demonstrable experience of managing all aspects of accounts payable / purchasing ledger tasks. Good practical knowledge of working with Finance systems, as well as SAP and Microsoft Packages.

About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 14 billion litres of soft drinks from 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and we've just opened in Australia, and we’re only just getting started. We have grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best-known UK drinks brands such as Monster Energy, Ocean Spray, and Innocent.

From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. 

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.