Buro Happold Engineer India Private Limited
Accounts Payable Assistant
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Ready to grow your finance career with a global consultancy? Join our Accounts Payable team.
This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model.
We are looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join our Global Finance Shared Services team in Bath. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative, high-performing team supporting Buro Happold’s global operations across the UK, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the US.
As we continue to deliver our Future Finance Strategy and ambitious growth plans, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our Accounts Payable processes run smoothly, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
About The Role
As an Accounts Payable Assistant, you’ll play a key role in supporting the efficient and accurate delivery of our global finance operations. Working as part of a collaborative, high-performing team, you’ll be responsible for processing transactions, resolving queries, and ensuring our Accounts Payable activities run smoothly.
You’ll manage your workload effectively, maintain high levels of accuracy, and work confidently within established finance processes and systems. With support and ongoing development, you’ll build strong technical capability and deepen your understanding of best practice in Accounts Payable within a global organisation.
Key Responsibilities
As part of our Global Accounts Payable team, you will:
- Accurately process supplier invoices and employee expenses in a timely manner.
- Support weekly payment runs, ad-hoc payments, and direct debit processing.
- Manage supplier onboarding via our procurement portal.
- Handle corporate credit card transactions and travel provider invoices.
- Respond to supplier and employee queries, delivering excellent customer service.
- Perform supplier and ledger reconciliations.
- Support month-end activities and resolve workflow or technical issues.
- Process complex invoices and credit notes with accuracy and attention to detail.
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What We Are Looking For
We’re seeking someone who combines strong technical capability with a proactive, team-focused mindset:
Essential
- Part-qualified AAT or qualified by experience.
- Experience working with an ERP system (Unit4/Agresso preferred).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Outlook.
- Experience in a transactional finance team or administrative role.
Your qualities
You’ll Thrive In This Role If You Are
- Highly detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy.
- A strong communicator with excellent customer service skills.
- Motivated, flexible, and eager to learn.
- Able to manage deadlines and prioritise effectively.
- A collaborative team player, comfortable working independently when needed.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What We Offer You
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance, and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
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A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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