Location
Peterborough (Hybrid role: 2-3 days per week in the office, remainder working from home)

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project involves planning, designing, and constructing approximately 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also responsible for a further 260km of future interconnector pipelines and infrastructure. This Finance Clerk role supports two key activities with time split based on business needs:

Purchase to Pay: Raising SAP purchase orders as requested, facilitating timely approval of purchase orders ensuring compliance with supply chain procedures and processes. Providing guidance and support to the wider business on order management and the end-to-end purchase to pay process. Supporting the Finance Team to manage on-time payments to SPA Ecosystem Partners while ensuring correct governance.

Supporting the Ecosystem Manager: Assisting Ecosystem Managers to deliver their programme of work, including developing procurement skills such as obtaining quotations, bid analysis, tender recommendations, SPA governance, and building product knowledge to understand site requirements.

The role supports Costain’s work with Anglian Water on their new Reservoirs Programme, progressing two major reservoirs through Development Consent Order (DCO) approval. The delivery team operates predominantly across Sleaford (Lincolnshire), Chatteris (Cambridgeshire), and Peterborough.

Responsibilities
- Act as gatekeeper to ensure purchase requisitions converted to purchase orders contain correct information including framework numbers and clear descriptions for suppliers and internal reporting
- Ensure all governance documentation is attached to PAL or NFP folders
- Convert requisitions to purchase orders consistent with policies, procedures, minimum standards, and service levels
- Transmit purchase orders to vendors
- Process new vendor setups and NFP signoffs as required
- Provide positive feedback to requisitioners to improve requisition quality and enable first-time conversion
- Address invoice queries promptly and follow the in-dispute process when necessary
- Identify process improvements with line manager
- Engage proactively with the purchase to pay community to support and guide on supply chain issues, promote efficient purchase to pay systems, train relevant staff, and contribute to process guides
- Provide support and guidance on supplier information, order processing, requisition status, and other purchase to pay matters
- Support delivery teams’ procurement needs by obtaining quotations and raising orders on PAL
- Use reporting to improve supplier performance
- Support integration and compliance of supply chain partners
- Assist Ecosystem Manager with problem solving within the supply chain process
- Identify opportunities to move processes to material master or SAP Ariba

Experience
- Ability to maintain effective control systems
- Analytical skills
- Experience managing high-volume workloads and meeting strict deadlines
- Good customer service and communication skills
- Verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

About you
- Strong communication skills
- Strong self-organisational capabilities
- Ability to work collaboratively and provide guidance to others
- Proactive approach to identifying improvements and problem solving

Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of relevant ERP systems and processes
- Knowledge of SAP MM and SRM data elements (SAP access training provided)
- Full driving licence

Desirable
- CIPS Level 3 or willingness to work towards it
- Experience or willingness to learn SAP Ariba and SAP S4HANA