Purchase Ledger Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Purchase Ledger Manager to oversee project expenditure and ensure effective site admin operations on the A57 Link Road project. This role involves accurate financial reporting, management of site support processes, and collaboration with diverse project stakeholders to guarantee efficiency in cost control.

Benefits

Smart working with flexibility

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience in site admin role producing and reporting project cost.
• Ability to influence project stakeholders.
• Intermediate level in Excel required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for accurate costing and control of project expenditure.
• Management of project staff holiday records and timesheets.
• Data gathering and reporting for sustainability.

Skills

Numeracy

IT skills

Training in cost management

Tools

Oracle

MS Office (Excel)

Job description

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About The Role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise.

About The Role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise.

Join our Highways team as a Purchase Ledger Manager on the A57 Link Road project and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you!

What you'll be doing

As a Purchase Ledger Manager you will be responsible for:

• Accurate costing and control of project expenditure, reflected in the timely production of monthly project cost reports
• Interfaces directly with the project staff to ensure projects receive adequate support and guidance from the site support function
• Ensure that site support processes are consistently and rigorously applied across projects in accordance with all relevant CSUK policies
• Management of new starts/ transfers/ timesheet input for weekly paid operatives
• Review accounts transactions processed by Cost Administrators including plant transactions, catalogue call-offs, material receipt/ GRN processing, invoice processing, PNPO processing, supplier query resolution, and other sundry transactions are accurate.
• Process accounts transactions including plant returns & queries, sundry sales invoices, rent, petty cash, minor value purchases, PNPO processing, supplier query resolution, and other sundry transactions
• Calculating project accruals for CVR
• Assisting with resolution of payroll queries
• Data gathering, recording and reporting for sustainability (CRC, meters, van logs etc)
• Assist with site set-up
• Management of project staff holiday records and timesheets (may change with self-service timesheets)
• Management of project ancillary staff – cleaners, storemen, secretaries.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• The individual should have experience of performing a site admin role producing and reporting project cost either on a large site or across multiple sites in a construction environment.
• The ability to work with people at various levels both internally within Balfour Beatty and externally and apply and comply with the CSUK site support procedures is essential.
• This is a position of considerable responsibility involving ordering, receipting, invoice processing and payroll.
• Numeracy and IT skills: MS Office packages including Excel (intermediate level) are required.
• The ability to influence key project stakeholders within the organisation to ensure good practise and a collaborative approach is taken to ensure efficient cost control on the project(s).
• A working knowledge of Oracle (or equivalent ERP cost management module) and construction/engineering working rule agreements is desirable.
  
  

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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing and Supply Chain

• Industries

  Construction

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