Accounts Payable Team Leader

Salary: Up to £35,310
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Head Office - West Didsbury
Benefits: Competitive pension, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans for public transport plus much more.
The Accounts Payable Team Leader will be instrumental in the timely processing of supplier invoices and payments on behalf of the Group and will be an ambassador of exceptional customer service to suppliers and colleagues across the business.
What you’ll be doing

• Actively managing team of Accounts Payable Officers by creating a weekly rota, ensuring adequate training, absence management and having regular 1-2-1 meetings to monitor performance
• Checking and approving weekly payment run
• Checking and approving sundry payments
• Ensuring regular contractor payments for Developer
• Running monthly CIS reports for CIS returns
• Monitoring SLAs and KPI’s performance
• Complete Month End Procedure within the SLA timescale
• Being the main point of contact for Accounts Payable escalation queries
• Ensuring that the Accounts Payable Team provides an excellent service in accordance with SLA’s

What you will need

• Minimum 3 years of experience within Accounts Payable
• Minimum 2 years of people management experience
• Finance qualification, e.g. finance degree, AAT qualified/ACCA part qualified
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUPS, pivot tables
• Experience of cross organisational working and engaging stakeholders
• Experience in Open Accounts, QL, eBis will be desirable but not essential
• Exceptional multitasker, highly motivated and resilient, able to dive into the details whilst maintain an oversight of the big picture
• Excellent communication skills, able to interact with colleagues at all levels

What we need from you
As a line manager you will need to actively support your colleagues with their development and well-being, some experience of this is desirable but not essential as we offer full support to people transitioning into a management role
What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment

• Pension | DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)
• WPA | Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available - option to increase & add family members
• Annual leave | Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holidays
• Flexi time | Allows colleagues to achieve a healthy work life balance whilst carrying out requirement of the role. A maximum of 13 days flexi can be taken in a year
• Greater Working | We offer Hybrid and flexible working to fit your schedule as well as the requirements of the business, so you can work to your greatest ability
• Reward & Recognition | You Count Rewards are individual reward’s for going ‘above & beyond’ Compliance based training bonuses paid annually
• Professional fees | The business pays the cost of one professional membership fee for each colleague
• The Market Place | High street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives | Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing

Please note we are looking to hold interviews on Wednesday 14th February.
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