Accounts Payable Team Leader (Maternity Cover)

Adaptavist; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Accounts Payable Team Leader, where you'll lead a global team to ensure seamless invoice and payment operations. This role offers the chance to elevate processes and champion a culture of excellence in a fast-paced environment. Enjoy the flexibility of remote work, competitive holiday allowance, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization. If you're passionate about driving high performance and fostering a collaborative team culture, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

MacBook Provided

Competitive Holiday Allowance

Support for Home Office Setup

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in accounts payable or related roles.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• Experience within a high-volume environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and allocate daily tasks to the team.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal controls.
• Assist with year-end audit and indirect tax returns.

Skills

Accounts Payable Experience

Attention to Detail

Excellent Communication Skills

Multinational Organization Experience

Organizational Skills

Tools

Netsuite

Xero

Excel

Google Sheets

Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence)

Job description

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a competitive holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

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About the role

Step into a key leadership role as an Accounts Payable Team Leader (maternity cover), where you'll drive high performance across a global AP team. You'll ensure seamless invoice and payment operations for multiple international entities, keeping everything running smoothly, accurately, and on time. This is your opportunity to lead with impact, elevate processes through best practices, and champion a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, global environment.

What you'll be doing

Day to Day

• Monitor and allocate daily tasks to the team.
• Review supplier invoice processing, employee expense reimbursements and coding into the accounting system.
• Organise adhoc payment runs, ensuring accuracy and timely payments.
• Resolve queries as and when they arise.
• Assist with processing and general AP-related tasks.
• Update and maintain departmental i-pages.
• Update and maintain departmental SOP documents.
• Point of contact for internal stakeholders.

Monthly & Bi-monthly

• Vendor statement imports and reconciliation. (circ.30m account)
• Payment Packs
• Coordinate with other departments to resolve payment issues.
• Ensure invoices are recorded accurately and in a timely manner in the accounting system across business units and GL accounts.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal controls.
• General communications to vendors.

Analysis & Reporting

• Assist the team with month-end supplier and payables reporting.
• Ensure vendor statement reconciliations for the accounts payable team are complete, accurate and informative.
• Ensure items flagged for review are resolved

Ad-hoc

• Assist with year-end audit and indirect tax returns.
• Assist integration activities (UniFi, Netsuite, Expensify, Spendesk)
• Share knowledge across the wider team to help plan and implement controls and strategies that can strengthen the overall payables workflow.
• Ad-hoc tasks to support the wider finance team.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience in accounts payable or related roles.
• Experience working with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• Experience working with accounting systems.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to actively listen to others and relay information clearly.
• Experience in a multinational organisation with multiple entities covering a range of different currencies.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience within a high-volume environment.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to multitask.
• The ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and creditors.
• The ability to work well in a team and collaborate with others.
• Experience with Netsuite and Xero.
• Experience with Excel and Google Sheets.
• Previous experience in the tech industry.

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Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with The Adaptavist Group to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

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We look forward to your application!