About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join Balfour Beatty as an Accounts Payable Team Member in Newcastle and build something to be proud of.
Provide financial, administrative and clerical support to the organisation, contributing to ensuring our supply chain are paid to terms through processing, verifying and reconciling invoices received into the company.
What you'll be doing
* Ensure suppliers adhere to paperless invoice submission.
* Process any paper‑based purchase order invoice exceptions manually, ensuring compliance to processes and procedures.
* Upload eInvoicing intercompany files for ATS & other Intercompany/JV suppliers.
* Be involved in MyC projects to drive improvements with data quality and accuracy within team, department and company.
* Deal with e‑mail queries from internal stakeholders and external suppliers through BMC & Outlook.
* Answer live chat queries from internal stakeholders.
* Support other team areas as required.
* Ensure post is reviewed and accurately dealt with daily.
* Attend supplier calls to support aged debt activity/continuous improvement activities, supporting supplier engagement team where requested.
Who we're looking for
* Meticulous and accurate with impeccable attention to detail.
* Able to challenge in the right manner and ensure business compliance and rules are applied consistently.
* Able to work under pressure in a fast‑paced and changing environment.
* Organised with the ability to prioritise and multi‑task due to high volumes of work and tight deadlines.
* A confident communicator with a good telephone manner, able to build relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
* Able to work independently, in team context.
* Ability to understand/work with various online IT systems including Microsoft Office suite.
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.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.
Disability confident
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. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
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