Flexible working
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Purchase Ledger Administrator

Salary £29,633.90 per annum £17,780.34 pro rara for 21 hrs
Location Endurance House, Histon, CB24 9ZR
Status 21 hours per week Part time Fixed Term Contract
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Purchase Ledger Administrator

Location: Endurance House, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9ZR (hybrid working, minimum one day working from home)

Fixed Term Contract – 1 year maternity cover

21 hours per week – to be worked preferably Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7 hours per day, but flexible.  Working pattern to be agreed with successful candidate

Salary: £29,633.90 per annum which equates to £17,780.34 per annum for 21 hours per week

 

What you’ll do

Be responsible for data input and administrative support for purchase ledger; payment stage of manual bacs payment requests and rent refunds, ensuring they are dealt with accurately and efficiently.

Review invoices received to ensure that they meet HMRC requirements and are correctly invoiced to CHS.

Register invoices onto the purchase ledger system.  Match invoices against purchase orders and prepare batches for the purchasing ordering system, ensuring code structure is applied correctly and deal with any queries with colleagues and external suppliers.

Log invoices onto our purchase order system and file electronically.

About you

A basic understanding of accounting.

Committed to providing high quality customer service in a diplomatic and confident manner.

Able to work diplomatically and confidently with high standards or oral and written communication.

Experience of using IT including accounting systems, Outlook, Word and Excel

Benefits

  • Employee discount scheme (retail, leisure, gym membership and fitness equipment)
  • Doctor Care Anywhere (telehealth service offering private online GP and nurse appointments via video and phone)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice)
  • One day off a year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
  • 30 days holiday, increasing to 35 days per annum, inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part-time staff), depending on length of service
  • Holiday purchase scheme- up to 5 days per annum (pro rata for part-time staff)
  • Company sick pay
  • 58p per mile business mileage allowance
  • Refer a friend scheme (£250)
  • Contributory pension scheme, which both you and CHS contribute to
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity  leave
  • Flexible Working Policy
  • Full induction
  • Comprehensive free training and development opportunities with paid time off
  • Free DBS (for relevant posts)
  • Free onsite/nearby parking
  • Hybrid Working Policy (Head Office not CS OR CI)
  • Flexitime (for roles at Head Office)

 

  

Closing date: Tuesday 9 December -midnight

Interviews will be held on: Thursday 18 December 2025

 

For more information or to arrange for an informal chat, please contact Chris Durrant via email – chris.durrant@chsgroup.org.uk

 

Founded in 1927, Cambridge Housing Society (CHS) is an independent housing association with over 3,000 homes in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. We are one of only two independent housing associations working just in Cambridgeshire and we are the only one to offer a blend of affordable rented homes, specialist supported housing and a range of community support services.

Our Purpose
We are here to enable people to flourish, by providing security and creating opportunities through the delivery of high-quality Cambridgeshire based homes with support.

‘CHS will be a trusted local provider of long term, affordable, secure housing.  We listen to our tenants and customers and provide support where needed.  We will be entrepreneurial with a social purpose, developing local partnerships and looking for new opportunities to support communities in Cambridgeshire.’

Our Values are:

  • Caring
  • Openness
  • Trust

Our Values are:

  • Caring
  • Openness
  • Trust

The way we work – ‘the CHS way’

  • Flexible
  • Creative
  • Respectful
  • Working in partnership
  • Focused on the social objective

Employee discount scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Company sick pay

Comprehensive free training & development

Doctor Care Anywhere

Contributory pension scheme

Business mileage allowance

Employee Assistance Programme

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