Job Description

We’re looking for an administrator to join our capital and project order team. At Co-op, we’re passionate about helping our customers to get their hands on the products they love. And that starts by making sure we’ve got great stores in great locations across the UK. We’re creating a store network that’s fit for the future, and the capital and project order team has an important role to play in driving our growth by making sure we get great value from our capital investment programme.

In this role, we’ll look to you to help process invoices for capital spend related to property construction. You’ll need to be organized and driven, as well as being able to communicate effectively with a range of key partners across the business. If you have the skills we need, then we can offer you the chance to gain fantastic exposure to an interesting and rapidly developing area of the business.

What you’ll do:

• support with processing supplier invoices for all property construction related payments
• manage large value supplier accounts, reconciling their statements and chasing down approvals for invoices that require payment
• handle journals associated with cost transfers
• take responsibility for chasing teams or individuals across the business for project information so you can raise orders and release funds to suppliers
• deal with lots of different partners internally and externally including; business managers, project managers, quantity surveyors and suppliers
• make sure that financial governance is maintained in all transactions

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

some previous finance experience; you’re comfortable working with numbers and figures a high level of accuracy and attention to detail great organizational skills with the ability to priorities your workload the ability to confidently communicate with a range of key partners and suppliers strong team-working skills and the ability to build meaningful relationships intermediate level Microsoft Excel skills (you can use VLOOKUPS) previous accounts payable experience would be beneficial in this role, as would experience of using CEDAR or SharePoint, but these are not essential