Accounts Payable Team Member - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an
Accounts Payable Team Member to join our Enabling Functions team to work from our
Newcastle upon Tyne office 60% of the time with the flexibility of working up to 40% from home.

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 to processes and procedures;
Accurately process manual invoices, including appropriate coding and ensuring relevant approval received;
Accurately process three way match vendor invoices, matching vendor invoice 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;
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 amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us
Balfour Beatty's Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference:
BBUK04044