Reconciliation Lead

Reconciliation Lead
Circa £37,000 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Peterborough

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

It is important we can pay our suppliers on time to ensure our business can deliver its purpose of bringing environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop. As a team we are responsible for managing payments to around 2500 Suppliers with approximately 15000 invoice documents per month totalling £70m worth of spend. This role is responsible for ensuring payments are processed and tracked accurately for all Anglian Water Group companies, this is essential to the production of our annual balance sheet.

Lead the team in supplier statement reconciliations, dealing with supplier queries and ensuring the ledgers are kept up to date and maintained correctly. To be successful in this role it is crucial that you are able to take a stand back view and understand the end-to-end process and work with the business, suppliers and the rest of the AP team to ensure things run as efficiently as possible.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 reconciliation analysts

• Ensure GR/IR account is cleared down in a timely manner and investigate any issues
• Work with business and P2P to ensure that GRN’s are entered accurately and in a timely manner
• Manage the Accounts payable team inbox
• Related queries are logged, prioritised, and responded to within agreed service levels
• Act as the first point of contact for payment queries
• Complete monthly supplier statement reconciliations

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Apps particularly Excel and Word
• Ability to motivate a team and prioritise workload
• Numerate and computer literate.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills to provide a high level of customer service.
• Team player with ability to be flexible in your approach and way of thinking to enable effective problem solving.
• Ability to use initiative and at times work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to deal with fast paced environment

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 6th May 2026

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