Accounts Payable Team Member - Fixed Term Contract - Newcastle upon Tyne
About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn't the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too.
Join our team as a Accounts Payable Team Member and you can build something to be proud of!
This role is based in our Newcastle upon Tyne office 60% of the time with the flexibility of working up to 40% from home.
The Accounts Payable team provides financial, administrative, and clerical support to the organisation. We contribute to ensuring our supply chain is paid to terms through processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices received into the company.
This is a 12 month Fixed Term contract.
What you'll be doing
As an Accounts Payable Team Member, you will:
* Ensure suppliers adhere to paperless invoice submission;
* Process any paper-based invoice exceptions, ensuring compliance with processes and procedures;
* Accurately process manual invoices, including appropriate coding and ensuring relevant approval is received;
* Accurately process three-way match vendor invoices, matching vendor invoices to the goods receipt/purchase order;
* Ensure that supplier accounts are paid in accordance with agreed terms;
* Solve queries on mismatched invoices and orders in conjunction with procurement and business teams;
* Reconcile supplier accounts and resolve any resulting queries & discrepancies which may arise with missing or held invoices;
* Deal with email queries from internal stakeholders and external suppliers;
* Communicate within the team to resolve queries efficiently;
* Engage positively with team meetings, huddles, and wider business forums;
* Support team members with workload during times of absence or high activity, to ensure business needs are met;
* Maintain good knowledge of ERP and other systems;
* Work within all sub-teams within the Accounts Payable function as required.
Who we're looking for
Personal Qualities & Experience
Essential:
* Self-motivated with an aptitude to accept responsibility for own learning and development;
* Organised with the ability to prioritise and multi-task due to high volumes of work and tight deadlines;
* Meticulous and accurate with impeccable attention to detail;
* A confident communicator with a good telephone manner and able to build relationships with suppliers and stakeholders;
* Ability to demonstrate a strong customer focus and a passion for quality service delivery;
* Ability to work well within a team;
* Flexible and able to adapt to working in different teams as required;
* Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Desirable:
* Working towards AAT Level 2 or other professional exams e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ICM;
* Experience of working within the Oracle ERP System.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more...
About us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems, and processes. #J-18808-Ljbffr