Sales and Purchase Ledger Administrator

📍Location: Kirk Hammerton, York

🕓Hours: 39 hours per week (8:00am – 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 8:00am – 3:30pm on Fridays, but flexibility required)

💷 Salary: £30,000 per annum

Want to join our team and help green the nation? Join a business that reduces the nation’s carbon footprint with every sale.

About us

Johnsons Nurseries is a three-generation family business located in North Yorkshire, equidistant between York and Harrogate, with 100 years’ experience in growing and supplying millions of trees, shrubs and plants to UK-wide planting schemes each year.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our small, friendly and busy accounts team. This role is primarily a sales ledger and credit control role, with some additional purchase ledger responsibilities.

Your main responsibilities:

• Post receipts against sales ledger balances, ensuring customer debt records are up to date and accurate.
• Communicate with customers by telephone, statement, email or letter in order to collect outstanding debt.
• Participate in the management of customer credit limits.
• Assess up and coming customer deliveries with reference to agreed terms and credit insurance.
• Process purchase invoices through the company’s SAP computer system.

Please click here to view the full job description

What we are looking for:

• Experience of working on a sales ledger.
• Effective communication skills to liaise with colleagues, customers and suppliers.
• Attention to detail.
• The ability to confidently engage with and work with financial data.

Please click here to view the full employee specification

Why work for us?

We genuinely believe we have one of the best working environments with stunning views over the Vale of York. We currently employ a workforce of 120, rising to 150 seasonally across our three sectors: Commercial, Retail, and our onsite Trade Cash and Carry. We are proud of our low employee turnover and ability to identify, recruit and develop employees who go on to give 20, 30 or even more than 40 years’ service.

Benefits to working at Johnsons:

☀️Generous holiday entitlement

🕓Early finish on a Friday

🍕Food days

💷Annual attendance bonus

🅿️Onsite parking

👫Employee referral scheme

🍧Ice lollies during the summer

💷Profit share bonus

🧓Pension fund

🚑Health Shield health cash plan

🍻Staff events

💳Trade Cash and Carry discount

💷Extra mile bonus

How to apply

If you like the sound of this opportunity and are interested in becoming part of our team, please send your CV and a covering letter, clearly setting out how you meet the requirements of our job role, to recruitment@johnsonsnurseries.co.uk by Wednesday, 18 March 2026.

The full list of attributes for this job role can be found in our employee specification, where we have also identified how each one will be assessed; therefore, please check this carefully to ensure that your CV and covering letter address all of the relevant attributes we have set out.

Please note: if you do not provide a covering letter to support your application, we will be unable to take your application further.

At the moment, we do not wish to receive CVs from Agencies.