Summary: The Trainee Finance Team Leader role at a logistics business in Lichfield involves overseeing a two-person Sales Ledger team, providing guidance and support while managing workloads. The position is ideal for a Sales Ledger professional looking to step into leadership, with all necessary training provided. Key responsibilities include processing invoices, conducting performance reviews, and driving process improvements. The company seeks an immediately available candidate to cover for the current Team Leader's upcoming leave.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee a Sales Ledger team of two, providing guidance and managing workloads.
• Process and review high-volume invoice requests from multiple sources, ensuring correct coding and allocation across cost and profit centres.
• Ensure accurate cost centre allocation for all invoices, maintaining financial accuracy across different areas of the business.
• Manage the month-end closure of the Sales Ledger, including reconciliations and reporting.
• Conduct 1-2-1 meetings and performance reviews, supporting team development.
• Drive process improvements, streamlining workflows to enhance efficiency.
• Oversee intercompany transactions, including clear-downs, journals, and reconciliations.
• Maintain customer account accuracy, handling credit limits, address updates, and yearly depot changes.
• Provide holiday cover for team members, ensuring continuity in Sales Ledger operations.

Key Skills:

• Strong Sales Ledger experience, ideally in a business with multiple cost/profit centres.
• Confident in cost centre allocation, ensuring invoices are coded correctly across different departments.
• Proactive and process-driven, with a keen eye for identifying improvements.
• Ambitious and keen to step up into a leadership role.
• Confident communicator who enjoys working with and supporting others.
• Ideally immediately available or available on short notice.
• Driving license preferred due to location accessibility.

Salary (Rate): 35,000

City: Lichfield

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance