Agri Accounts Payable

Lakeland Dairies Co-operative Society Limited (The Group) is the second largest dairy processor on the island of Ireland. The business is complex and ambitious with a milk supply pool of 2 billion litres of milk, drawn from over 3,200 family farms across 16 counties.

With the most modern dairy manufacturing facilities in 6 locations on a cross-border basis, the Group supplies to a broad customer base including some of the world’s foremost ‘blue chip’ companies across the dairy food ingredients, foodservice and consumer food channels on a domestic Ireland, UK, European and global basis. Internationally we export some 240 different products to over 100 countries worldwide.

The Group’s Agribusiness Division (Lakeland Agri) operates a state-of-the-art Animal Feed Manufacturing Facility and is a leading and innovative provider of the highest quality feeds and agricultural inputs to dairy, beef, and sheep farmers across the north and south of Ireland.

The Role:

This role is central to ensuring the accurate processing of supplier invoices, maintaining strong financial controls, and supporting timely payments across the business.

Key Responsibilities (Not Limited to)

• Managing purchase invoices received from various sources.
• Matching of invoices against purchase order on the system.
• Ensuring VAT compliance by posting VAT using correct VAT rate codes and posting to correct nominal ledger codes.
• Follow up on any invoice queries with person responsible on a timely basis.
• Perform weekly creditor payment runs in both euro and sterling currency.
• Working with group treasury to ensure weekly creditor payment runs and urgent payment requests are made in a timely manner.
• Assign non inventory invoices to the appropriate person for approval.

Qualifications & Experience

• Previous experience in a similar administrative role is essential, with a high level of IT skill, particularly in Excel and business systems
• Experience working with SAP ERP system would be advantageous.
• A qualification or part qualification in accounting or business is desirable but not essential. 

We are committed to equality and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our customers and stakeholders.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

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