Accounts Administrator
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £36,901.09 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leyland, PR26 6TB |
| Company: | Lancashire Renewables Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 138 |
Summary
Job Advert
Accounts Administrator
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join the Business and Finance team at Lancashire Renewables Ltd. working
37.5 hours per week at our Leyland facility.
What you’ll be doing
As an Accounts Administrator, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of our financial operations. You’ll
be responsible for maintaining and reconciling both sales and purchase ledger accounts, administering payroll functions, and
supporting the wider Finance Department. Your work will involve processing invoices, payments, and receipts, keeping financial
records up to date, and managing account and bank reconciliations. You'll also monitor KPIs such as match rates and retrospective
purchase orders, while ensuring compliance with internal policies and financial regulations.
You will prepare and reconcile financial information across various areas including recyclates, offtake income, and payroll data.
This includes generating accurate invoices, reconciling supplier statements, maintaining master data, and managing financial
trackers for budget holders and projects. Supporting budget planning and performance analysis will be an important part of your
role, as you contribute to monthly reporting, forecasting for cost centres, and assist with month-end close procedures.
Your role will also involve maintaining regulatory compliance, managing financial documentation to audit standards, and
contributing to process improvements by identifying ways to streamline financial systems and reduce manual workload. Strong
communication will be key as you liaise with both internal teams and external suppliers to resolve invoice queries and aged
balances, ensuring smooth and effective financial operations across the board.
What you will bring
To be successful in this position, it is essential that you hold AAT Level 2 and are currently studying towards or already hold
AAT Level 3.
The following experience and knowledge is essential to this role:
* Knowledge of financial cycle and related duties.
* Knowledge of financial related systems.
* Knowledge of segregation of duties and governance.
* Knowledge of procure to pay process.
* Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of Finance and have relevant experience.
* Relevant experience working within a financial system such as CODA or similar system.
* Proficient in financial processing such as sales ledger, purchase ledger, payroll, treasury and general ledger.
* Experience of assisting with an external audit
* Customer service skills with a focus on meeting the needs of managers, customers, and suppliers.
Whilst training and development opportunities are provided and encouraged for our roles, the following skills would be highly
beneficial:
* Relevant experience working within a payroll system such as TMS and Flexipay.
What we offer you
* Competitive salary.
* Company contributory pension scheme matched up to 5%.
* 26 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays – increasing to 30 days after 5 years.
* Death in Service cover – 4x Salary.
* Free on-site car parking.
* Company sick pay scheme– up to 26 weeks dependent on length of service
* Cycle to work scheme.
* We offer training and personal development programmes to our employees to provide opportunities to develop and progress.
* Wellbeing support for mental health.
* All required PPE and other relevant equipment supplied.
Who are we?
Lancashire Renewables Ltd was established for the operation and management of the two waste treatment facilities built for the
Lancashire Waste Contract.
Our two facilities in Thornton and Leyland are manned 365 days a year. Both sites can process over 5,000 tonnes of residual
(black bin bag) waste per week and divert 95% of this material away from landfill.
Our aim is to achieve a sustainable future for Lancashire by providing services to process biodegradable and non-biodegradable
community waste and our people are vital in helping us achieve this.
Our employees work in a variety of operations, maintenance, logistics and support roles across our two sites in Leyland and
Thornton, actively encouraging internal growth through development and training programmes.
We are dedicated to providing a positive, supportive work environment with a strong focus on the health, safety, and wellbeing of
all our employees.
We are an equal opportunity employer:
Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Lancashire Renewables, and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves
at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and
employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed.
Candidates should apply with an up-to-date CV by Friday 11th July 2025.
Please note that the advert may be closed early if we receive sufficient applications.
Apply by email to: careers@lancashirerenewables.co.uk [careers@lancashirerenewables.co.uk]
Apply by post to: Business and Finance, Lancashire Renewables Ltd,
Environmental Education Centre, Farington Waste Recovery Park, Sustainability Way, Leyland, PR26 6TB.
All roles are subject to the following:
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Satisfactory completion of a Company medical which includes testing for drugs and alcohol. The Company operates a zero-tolerance
policy regarding the taking or being under the influence of drugs or alcohol whilst on duty and carry out periodic random tests.
Accounts Administrator
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join the Business and Finance team at Lancashire Renewables Ltd. working
37.5 hours per week at our Leyland facility.
What you’ll be doing
As an Accounts Administrator, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of our financial operations. You’ll
be responsible for maintaining and reconciling both sales and purchase ledger accounts, administering payroll functions, and
supporting the wider Finance Department. Your work will involve processing invoices, payments, and receipts, keeping financial
records up to date, and managing account and bank reconciliations. You'll also monitor KPIs such as match rates and retrospective
purchase orders, while ensuring compliance with internal policies and financial regulations.
You will prepare and reconcile financial information across various areas including recyclates, offtake income, and payroll data.
This includes generating accurate invoices, reconciling supplier statements, maintaining master data, and managing financial
trackers for budget holders and projects. Supporting budget planning and performance analysis will be an important part of your
role, as you contribute to monthly reporting, forecasting for cost centres, and assist with month-end close procedures.
Your role will also involve maintaining regulatory compliance, managing financial documentation to audit standards, and
contributing to process improvements by identifying ways to streamline financial systems and reduce manual workload. Strong
communication will be key as you liaise with both internal teams and external suppliers to resolve invoice queries and aged
balances, ensuring smooth and effective financial operations across the board.
What you will bring
To be successful in this position, it is essential that you hold AAT Level 2 and are currently studying towards or already hold
AAT Level 3.
The following experience and knowledge is essential to this role:
* Knowledge of financial cycle and related duties.
* Knowledge of financial related systems.
* Knowledge of segregation of duties and governance.
* Knowledge of procure to pay process.
* Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of Finance and have relevant experience.
* Relevant experience working within a financial system such as CODA or similar system.
* Proficient in financial processing such as sales ledger, purchase ledger, payroll, treasury and general ledger.
* Experience of assisting with an external audit
* Customer service skills with a focus on meeting the needs of managers, customers, and suppliers.
Whilst training and development opportunities are provided and encouraged for our roles, the following skills would be highly
beneficial:
* Relevant experience working within a payroll system such as TMS and Flexipay.
What we offer you
* Competitive salary.
* Company contributory pension scheme matched up to 5%.
* 26 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays – increasing to 30 days after 5 years.
* Death in Service cover – 4x Salary.
* Free on-site car parking.
* Company sick pay scheme– up to 26 weeks dependent on length of service
* Cycle to work scheme.
* We offer training and personal development programmes to our employees to provide opportunities to develop and progress.
* Wellbeing support for mental health.
* All required PPE and other relevant equipment supplied.
Who are we?
Lancashire Renewables Ltd was established for the operation and management of the two waste treatment facilities built for the
Lancashire Waste Contract.
Our two facilities in Thornton and Leyland are manned 365 days a year. Both sites can process over 5,000 tonnes of residual
(black bin bag) waste per week and divert 95% of this material away from landfill.
Our aim is to achieve a sustainable future for Lancashire by providing services to process biodegradable and non-biodegradable
community waste and our people are vital in helping us achieve this.
Our employees work in a variety of operations, maintenance, logistics and support roles across our two sites in Leyland and
Thornton, actively encouraging internal growth through development and training programmes.
We are dedicated to providing a positive, supportive work environment with a strong focus on the health, safety, and wellbeing of
all our employees.
We are an equal opportunity employer:
Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Lancashire Renewables, and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves
at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and
employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed.
Candidates should apply with an up-to-date CV by Friday 11th July 2025.
Please note that the advert may be closed early if we receive sufficient applications.
Apply by email to: careers@lancashirerenewables.co.uk [careers@lancashirerenewables.co.uk]
Apply by post to: Business and Finance, Lancashire Renewables Ltd,
Environmental Education Centre, Farington Waste Recovery Park, Sustainability Way, Leyland, PR26 6TB.
All roles are subject to the following:
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Satisfactory completion of a Company medical which includes testing for drugs and alcohol. The Company operates a zero-tolerance
policy regarding the taking or being under the influence of drugs or alcohol whilst on duty and carry out periodic random tests.