Overview
Balfour Beatty are currently looking for an Accounts Payable Manager to join our Enabling Functions - Accounting Services team at Quorum Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne. You will be directly responsible for managing and developing a team of Accounts Payable Clerks, ensuring a first class payables service to the business and contributing to paying our supply chain on time whilst adhering to all processes and controls. You will play a vital role in our continuous improvement journey and work across functions to support our key project deliverables in the P2P space.
What You'll Be Doing
As an Accounts Payable Manager, you will:
* Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing AP team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Act as a mentor and coach to team leaders and AP staff.
* Drive engagement and performance through clear objectives, feedback, and development plans.
Process Design & Optimisation
* Own and continuously improve the end-to-end Accounts Payable process, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and alignment with business needs.
* Lead automation and digitisation initiatives to streamline invoice processing, approvals, and payments.
* Implement KPIs and SLAs, driving performance in terms of quantitative and qualitative assessment against targets.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Procurement, Finance, IT) to enhance upstream and downstream processes.
Controls & Compliance
* Ensure strong financial controls are embedded across all AP activities, aligned with internal policies and external regulatory requirements.
* Oversee audit readiness, risk mitigation, and compliance key controls frameworks.
* Monitor and report on key AP metrics, SLAs, and KPIs to drive performance and transparency.
Strategic Contribution
* Support the Head of AP in shaping the long-term vision and roadmap for the AP function.
* Represent AP in senior finance forums and cross-functional projects.
* Act as a deputy to the Head of AP, stepping in as needed for leadership and decision-making.
You'll Have/Who we're looking for
* Proven experience in a senior AP leadership role within a complex, high-volume environment.
* Demonstrated success in leading and developing mid to large teams.
* Strong background in process design, transformation, and systems implementation (e.g., Oracle).
* Strong understanding of financial controls, risk management, and compliance frameworks.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
* Ability to engage and motivate people through periods of change.
* Analytical abilities, with high attention to detail and problem solving.
* Ability to work under own initiative and prioritise tasks.
* IT literate with strong to advanced Excel skills.
Desirable
* Experience in shared services or centralised finance environments.
* Experience leading purchase to pay processes.
* Oracle R12 system experience.
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?
Benefits
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
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and to growing our diverse workforce and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. For more information visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion. We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and AFBE, and we support Disability Confident and Armed Forces employment initiatives.
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