Accounts Payable & Rebates Administrator in Ipswich

Crane Building Services and Utilities (BSU) is part of the Fluid Handling Division of Crane Co. We are looking for someone to become a key part of a busy Finance Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for analysing sales data to review and prepare customer rebate payment requests, as well as liaising with customers to resolve any related queries.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual customer rebates, including the review and audit of claims made by our customers and following up on any discrepancies with customers or sales colleagues as needed.
• Processing of supplier invoices for multiple BS&U locations, covering UK and international suppliers and PO and non-PO invoices.
• Preparation of supplier statement reconciliations and following up any missing invoices.
• Resolution of problem invoices (e.g. goods not yet booked in, PO price variances, etc.) liaising with other departments as needed.
• Dealing with supplier queries promptly and proactively to prevent accounts going on hold.
• Calling suppliers to verify supplier bank account changes to comply with internal policy.
• Raising customer credit notes to support the credit control team.
• Downloading expenses from our claims system and loading into the ERP system.
• Other various AP and administrative tasks such as clearing down aged PO receipts and sorting/sending company post.

Qualifications / Experience / Training:

• Experience of working in an Accounts Payable role, processing high volumes of invoices.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office including Excel and ability to work with large volumes of data.
• Previous experience with sales rebates is desirable but not essential.

Personal Characteristics:

• Team player with the ability to work independently.
• Great problem solver with a keen analytical mind.
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable contacting customers and suppliers by email and telephone.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail.

This role is based on a minimum of 30 hours per week; however applications from candidates seeking full‑time hours will also be considered. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity is key to our success and as such we are seeking applications from candidates who will contribute their different backgrounds, cultures and experiences to our business.