Administrator

Job title :Purchasing Administrator Location :Warrington Salary :£21,500 plus Serco benefits Working hours :Full time - 37.5hrs - Mon-Fri

The key purpose of this role is carrying out all purchasing activity to include Purchase Order, invoice and payment processing while identifying solutions to challenges in these activities to ensure all payments are processed efficiently and on time. A key part of this role is building effective relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external across the AASC contract to ensure the purchasing activity across the contract faces no barriers.

As a purchasing administrator, you will be maintaining data integrity of the IT Finance system while producing reports, briefings, and information updates to a high standard within a limited timeframe.

Some of your other accountabilities will include:

• Deal with vendor queries daily and escalate to Business Support Management team where appropriate.

• Contribute to operational excellence within the Business Support Team

• What you need to do the job* You will display a high level of attention to detail and have a positive approach to your work. Having experience in finance is desirable but is not essential as training will be provided. You will need to successfully engage and create successful working relationships with stakeholders and can demonstrate effective time management skills as well as deliver a variety of key timebound tasks whilst prioritising your own workload to meet specific timescales without prompt.

• Why Serco? * Meaningful and vital work: As part of a highly collaborative team, you’ll be able to strongly influence hiring managers efforts that help us deliver vital services. A world of opportunity: Working for a globally operating business delivering essential services across 5 vital sectors, your next opportunity and challenge won’t be hard to find. Great people: You’ll find yourself working with a variety of highly motivated, supportive and experienced colleagues, where no two days are the same.

• What we offer*

• Pension - 6%

• Childcare vouchers

• Bike4Work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services

• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion

• Serco Benefits package - discounts include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships

• A safe and supportive culture

• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion

• About Serco* At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

• Apply*

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.

Salary : £21,500.00 per year