Accounts Payable Team Member

**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.

The Accounts Payable team provide financial, administrative and clerical support to the organisation. We contribute to ensuring our supply chain are paid to terms through processing, verifying and reconciling invoices received into the company.
**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 multitask 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.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK11854