Accounts Payable

Colas Rail UK; Swindon; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

26 days Annual Leave

Industry leading Life Assurance

Healthcare Cash Plan

Wellbeing Employee

Assistant Programme Pension Scheme

Eye Care Vouchers

Long Service Award Season

Ticket Loan

Occupational Health Service

Job summary

Colas Rail UK is seeking a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our Accounts Payable team in Swindon. You will ensure invoices are processed accurately and on time, liaise with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and support month-end activities.

The role emphasizes accuracy, meeting deadlines, and teamwork within a supportive environment, offering competitive pay and benefits. This is a great entry into a growing rail infrastructure business in the UK.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience working to deadlines and an organised approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Desirable: Intermediate Excel skills and team player.

Responsibilities

• Ensure invoices are processed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Follow-up with authorisers to ensure processing timelines are observed and payments deadlines are achieved.
• Raise certificates within prescribed company deadlines.
• Assist in processing 4-weekly invoice payment runs.
• Attend to supplier queries and direct queries to relevant authorisers where necessary.
• Assist with monthly supplier statement reconciliations.
• Ensure payment log file is kept up to date (EXCEL).
• Ensure proactive management of any purchase orders requiring uplift.
• Provide administrative support where required.
• Any other tasks / responsibilities assigned by the Manager.

Skills

Attention to detail

Deadline driven

Communication skills

Accounts payable experience

Tools

Finance systems payable modules

Excel

Job description

Make your mark with Colas Rail UK

At Colas Rail, differences matter. Join a team where being your authentic self is respected, encouraged, and vital to our success. At Colas Rail you'll be at home. You'll be welcomed into an inclusive team where there's a role for every talent and a close-knit, familial culture. You will also get the opportunity to help us transform transportation, set new standards, and dare to be different.

Make your mark with Colas Rail UK

At Colas Rail, differences matter. Join a team where being your authentic self is respected, encouraged, and vital to our success. At Colas Rail you'll be at home. You'll be welcomed into an inclusive team where there's a role for every talent and a close-knit, familial culture. You will also get the opportunity to help us transform transportation, set new standards, and dare to be different.

This is true because...

• We value everyone as part of the same team.
• We treat everyone as equals - and everyone is approachable, from the CEO down.
• We put you in control of your career to lead and grow in any way you want.
• We have a culture of care, from safe working environments to diversity and inclusion.
• We're renowned for innovation, adopting new ideas, and daring to be different.
• We are building a more sustainable future and our projects impact infrastructure for generations.

About Us

Step into the world of Colas Rail, where a century of expertise merges with a daring spirit to shape the future of rail infrastructure. At Colas Rail, we deliver transport solutions for sustainable mobility. We are a leading rail infrastructure business with on track plant and freight capabilities. As a subsidiary of the Colas Group, we are part of over a hundred years' experience in delivering major innovations across our sector. Every day, thousands of trains run on tracks built, designed, or maintained by Colas Rail.

Leading by our Values

Our values, Respect, Commitment, Pioneering and Sharing are at the heart of everything we do. These values feed into our main strategies and accompany us daily in realising our ambitions.

We Respect

our employees, celebrate diversity and foster a culture of safety, care and respect for everyone we interact with. We care about our employee’s wellbeing and create an environment of inclusivity and support.

We Commit

by showing up wholeheartedly. When we commit together, we invest in everyone’s success. We invest in our customers, our teams and our colleagues, and we lead with safety, integrity, passion, purpose, ethics and transparency.

We Share

as we all hold knowledge that could and should be shared, enabling us to grow and making us a strong collective. We have a passion for excellence, celebrating achievements and nurturing talent.

We Pioneer

to push boundaries, imagine what does not yet exist and dare to do what others do not. We innovate with ambition, and we find solutions.

Purpose of the Role

Assist the Purchase Ledger Accounts payable teams to process applications, invoices and payments to ensure subcontractors and suppliers are paid accurately and on time

Person Specification

Essential

• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience working to deadlines and organised approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• Intermediate excel skills
• Team player
• Experienced in use of Finance Systems Payable modules

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure invoices are processed in an accurate and timely manner
• Follow-up with authorisers to ensure processing timelines are observed and payments deadlines are achieved.
• Raise certificates within prescribed company deadlines
• Assist in processing 4-weekly invoice payment runs
• Attend to supplier queries and direct queries to relevant authorisers where necessary
• Assist with monthly supplier statement reconciliations
• Ensure payment log file is kept up to date (EXCEL)
• Ensure proactive management of any purchase orders requiring uplift
• Provide administrative support where required
• Any other tasks / responsibilities assigned by the Manager
• As you will expect the organisation may change from time to time and you will be expected to meet the operational requirements. Any other reasonable duties as required from time to time.

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary
• 26 days Annual Leave
• Industry leading Life Assurance
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Employee
• Assistant Programme Pension Scheme
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Long Service Award Season
• Ticket Loan
• Occupational Health Service

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that diversity drives innovation and creativity, and we actively seek to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, heard, valued and respected. Regardless of background, disability, age, race, religion, or gender, everyone is welcome at Colas Rail.

We strive to promote equity and eliminate discrimination, actively seeking to create a workforce reflective of communities we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, offering flexible and inclusive adjustments to the interview process.

As part of a positive action drive to address under-representation we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.

We are proudly part of the Disability Confidence Scheme, and as such we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme if you meet the minimum requirements.

On joining Colas Rail you’ll have access to our growing Employee Network Groups including Railbow (representing the LGBTQ+ community), BeyonDisability (representing those with disabilities) and Cross Culture (representing people from ethnic backgrounds). Everyone is welcome to join our network groups whether you are part of the community or an ally.

Work life balance is important to us; flexible working options are available where feasible and dependant on the role. Please discuss this during the interview process.