Purchase Ledger Assistant

**Bouygues UK** have an exciting and challenging role for a **Purchase Ledger Assistant** within our Finance team. You will be a career focused individual who thrives in a fast paced and vibrant team environment. Work life balance is important to us at **Bouygues**, so the role offers a combination of home and office working.

**Job Purpose and Scope**:
You will work as part of the Purchase Ledger Shared Service Centre team, to carry out all Purchase Ledger activities to a competent standard and ensuring the Company’s financial transactions are recorded accurately.

**Essential criteria**:

- Purchase Ledger experience or keen interest to start a career in this area
- Detail focused & organised
- Calm, professional and drive to offer excellent service to our suppliers and internal stakeholders

**Accountabilities and key tasks**:

- Manage the Purchase Ledger functions based on assigned letters of the alphabet and for multiple legal entities.
- Verify and process all invoices and credit notes following applicable procedures in SAP. To ensure costs are recorded timely and to the correct areas of business so that suppliers and sub-contractors are paid within their terms
- Reconcile supplier and sub-contractor statements and work with the vendors and our businesses to resolve past due invoices. This will include debit balances, blocked items and aged debt
- Proactively review aged items held within SAP WebCycle and work with our business and vendors to resolve
- Actively monitor and resolve enquiries received into the shared Mailbox accounts
- Proactively understand and resolve the root cause of queries, so to reduce the volume and potential service disruptions
- Weekly payment runs for multiple entities
- Maintain well organised and accurate filing
- Ad-hoc duties at the request of the Management team
- All duties to be conducted in accordance with individual and team procedures and policies

Desirable
- SAP Experience or similar ERP system
- CIS knowledge

**Why Bouygues UK**
Day in day out our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture our values reflect how we operate with Respect, Excellence, Courage, Integrity, and Passion.

We offer competitive basic salaries coupled with generous company benefits including:

- 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
- 2 paid volunteering days a year
- pension scheme
- life insurance
- private medical insurance
- BY Extra - opt into lifestyle benefits

**Bouygues Construction UK** was awarded the** Top Employers United Kingdom** and Top Employers Europe certification. Together with our partners and clients, Bouygues UK delivers award-winning construction, development, and regeneration projects to the most exacting standards across public and commercial private sectors.
**Bouygues UK** is part of the** Bouygues Group**, a diverse global business which operates in the construction, engineering, energy, media, and telecommunications markets. With annual sales of over €32 billion and operations in over 100 countries, the financial strength of our group is a key differentiator in these challenging economic times.

**Be Yourself**
Here at **Bouygues**, we value the creativity and innovation that our diverse workforce brings, encouraging people from all backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented communities to apply. By joining us, you will be inspired to bring your full self to the workplace, speak up and share your unique ideas. You will also have an opportunity to join our employee led diversity & inclusion communities such as WeLink (women network), Encompass (LGBTQ+), Kaleidoscope (BAME), Disability and Wellness peer support network, Parents and Carers network.