Accounts Payable Clerk
Join Quintessential Brands as an Accounts Payable Clerk! Keep our finances flowing by managing supplier payments with precision, teamwork, and a proactive eye for continuous improvement.
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At Quintessential Brands Group, we are proud to continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, the visionary who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, our award-winning portfolio spans iconic names like Greenall’s, Opihr, Thomas Dakin, The Dubliner, and Chamère, our exciting new venture in the world of RTD cocktails.
A Taste of The Job
As our Accounts Payable Clerk, you’ll be part of the heartbeat of our Finance Team at our Warrington site, ensuring our suppliers are paid accurately, efficiently, and on time. Working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, you’ll help keep our supply chain and production running smoothly by managing high volumes of invoices and maintaining excellent supplier relationships.
Reporting to the AP Manager, you’ll work alongside two Purchase Ledger Assistants as part of a collaborative, supportive team. With around 60% of our invoices processed automatically through our systems, your sharp eye for detail and problem-solving skills will shine as you resolve queries, reconcile statements, and help drive process improvements across the department.
Your Impact will include:
- Invoice Management – Process a high volume of supplier invoices accurately and efficiently.
- Reconciliation & Resolution – Match and code invoices to POs and goods receipts, and resolve discrepancies quickly.
- Supplier Relationships – Manage supplier queries promptly, maintaining trust and clear communication.
- Payments & Reporting – Assist with weekly and monthly payment runs, accruals, and month-end reporting.
- Expense Management – Review and approve employee expenses in line with company policy.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner with Procurement, Operations, and Warehouse teams to resolve PO or invoice issues.
- Continuous Improvement – Support improvements to internal processes and financial controls.
- Statement reconciliations- managing a high volume of time-critical reconciliations.
A Flavour of the Business
We’re a unique blend of a young, ambitious company with over 250 years of distilling heritage. At Quintessential Brands Group, we’re passionate about crafting award-winning spirits, from Greenall’s Gin and Opihr to The Dubliner and Thomas Dakin.
We’ll be honest: we’re still growing, refining, and evolving. That means your ideas and initiative can really make a difference. Joining QB (as we’re known to our friends) means becoming part of a team that rolls up its sleeves, works collaboratively, and celebrates success together.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You’re a detail-driven finance professional who thrives in a busy environment. With strong purchase ledger experience and a keen eye for accuracy, you’re motivated to deliver excellence in every transaction. You’re approachable, adaptable, and enjoy being part of a collaborative team that values efficiency and integrity.
You will bring:
- Significant experience in Accounts Payable or Purchase Ledger
- Strong understanding of end-to-end purchase ledger processes.
- Experience using accounting/ERP systems (Business Central, Continia, or Emburse) is an advantage.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and confidence working with automation systems.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and remain calm under pressure
- Experience in FMCG or manufacturing is desirable but not essential.
The Garnish - The Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Life assurance cover
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support
- Discounts with high street and online retailers
- Staff shop and generous product allowance
- Training and development to support your growth
Joining our Finance Team means joining a business that blends heritage with ambition, and where your precision and passion will help fuel our next chapter of growth.
- Team
- Finance
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- Monthly salary
- 26,000 - 28,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
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Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.
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