The role:
- Leading and supporting a busy Accounts Payable team
- Managing team workloads, priorities and performance
- Coaching and developing team members
- Overseeing high-volume invoice processing and supplier payments
- Managing reconciliations and complex supplier queries
- Reviewing payment runs and ensuring key deadlines are met
- Monitoring KPIs, SLAs and overall team performance
- Supporting month-end reconciliations and reporting
- Managing relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
- Acting as an escalation point for more complex AP issues
- Supporting process improvements, automation and changes to ways of working
- Getting hands-on with the team during particularly busy periods
What they’re looking for:
- Previous Accounts Payable / Purchase Ledger leadership experience
- Experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced finance environment
- Strong people management and coaching skills
- Confident managing deadlines, workloads and KPIs
- Strong supplier and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable being hands-on and supporting the team operationally
- Good understanding of end-to-end Accounts Payable processes
- Proactive, resilient and comfortable working through change
The package:
- £40,000–£42,000
- 6-month FTC
- Potential permanent opportunity for a strong candidate
- Full-time, office-based
- South Leicester
- Strong company perks and benefits
- Opportunity to join a large, highly regarded business with a busy and complex finance operation
Rate:
£42,000/year
Location:
Leicester
IR35 Status:
Fixed-Term
Remote Status:
Onsite
Industry:
Finance & Strategy
Seniority Level:
Senior