BUYING INCOME ANALYST
This role is jointly responsible for ensuring all buying income has been collected. The buyer teams are split between two colleagues, with each colleague being responsible for their own area.
The key accountabilities & responsibilities are:

- Update supplier turnover in relevant invoicing sheet
- Updating terms accurately in the invoicing sheets
- Preparing weekly/monthly invoice runs
- Responding to supplier queries in a timely fashion
- Attend quarterly/monthly buyers meetings, understanding terms and ensuring the year end accrual position is accurately recorded
- Questioning where the terms are adverse compared to prior year, and gain understanding of the deals
- Year-end supplier reconciliations for their area of responsibility.This includes preparing the reconciliation, ensuring the year end accrual position is in line with actual position and responding to queries from the Purchasing Managers in a timely manner
- Completion of allocation of supplier audits for prior year.

- Ensuring holiday cover for colleague and other team members
In addition, you will have your own stand-alone responsibilities - Compiling late supplier turnover fines, liaising with Purchasing Manager to chase for returns
- Preparing Trade Interchange tracker files
- Raising adhoc invoices, for example Sales Out on behalf of other departments
- Ensure archiving is carried our periodically and details of boxes recorded
- Daily MAV and stock adjustments
- Regularly review processes look for continuous improvement opportunities
- Completion of supplier audits

You will need to have the following knowledge, skills and experience:

- This role will preferably be AAT part qualified due to the nature of financial understanding required

- Strong analytical skills
- Intermediate MS Excel skills
- High attention to detail and a focus on getting things right first time