Accounts Payable Team Member in Newcastle upon Tyne

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Balfour Beatty
Job Hours: Full-time

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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.

This is a 18 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 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;
  • 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 T 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.


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