AP Team Lead - Flexible Hours & Growth

Lineage Logistics; Heywood; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Cycle-to-work scheme

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Lineage Logistics is seeking an Accounts Payable Team Leader – EMEA to join our Shared Service Centre in Heywood. This hands-on role focuses on people management, coaching and developing the AP team while ensuring timely and accurate processing.

You will lead day-to-day AP activities, coordinate onboarding and training, and drive process improvements within the UK SSC, promoting a culture of ownership and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Previous Accounts Payable or P2P experience.
• Experience supervising or leading a team.
• Strong people-management, coaching and communication skills.
• Good Excel skills.
• Fluent English; additional European languages would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Accounts Payable specialists.
• Manage daily workloads, priorities and work queues.
• Hold regular one-to-ones and support individual development and training.
• Coordinate onboarding, training and cross-training within the team.
• Monitor AP performance, backlogs and service levels.
• Support the team with invoice, supplier and payment-related queries and escalations.
• Ensure processes, procedures and internal controls are followed consistently.
• Promote teamwork, accountability and a positive working environment.
• Identify opportunities to improve ways of working and support implementation of process improvements.

Skills

People management

Coaching

Communication skills

Prior AP/P2P experience

Excel skills

Prior team leadership

Prior AP/ERP systems experience

Tools

Workday

AppZen

ERP systems

Job description

Lineage Logistics is seeking an Accounts Payable Team Leader – EMEA to join our Shared Service Centre in Heywood. This hands-on role focuses on people management, coaching and developing the AP team while ensuring timely and accurate processing.

You will lead day-to-day AP activities, coordinate onboarding and training, and drive process improvements within the UK SSC, promoting a culture of ownership and collaboration.