Funeral Invoice Processing Advisor
£24,570 plus great benefits (Work level 6C)
15-month FTC to cover maternity
Manchester city centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and coming into the office twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We’re looking for a Funeral Invoice Processing Advisor to join the Invoice Processing team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day’.

As an Advisor, you’ll make sure that invoices paid to our Funeralcare suppliers are accurate and processed on time, so that we can give our clients the excellent service that they expect from Co-op, at a time when they need it most. If you have the high level of attention to detail and great communication skills that we need, then we can offer you the opportunity to develop your career and gain great exposure with a business that puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you’ll do

• Check and process any Goods For Resale invoices charged to our Funeralcare clients and Expense invoices charged to our branches
• Make sure that suppliers are paid on time, and that invoices are accurate
• Use systems including BASWARE and CEDAR to check and process invoices (we’ll provide full training on this software, so don’t worry if you haven’t used it before)
• Liaise with Funeralcare branches and suppliers when there are any issues with invoices
• Answer queries via email from colleagues in Funeralcare branches and from suppliers
• Process journal uploads for consolidated invoices and process individual and multiple cheque requests

This role would suit people who have

• Experience of invoice processing
• Good general IT skills, with the ability to use programmes in the Microsoft Office Suite (including basic Excel, Outlook and Word skills)
• A keen eye for detail
• Good communications skills with the ability to engage with a range of different colleagues and external partners
• Strong problem-solving skills

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.