Accounts Payable Team Leader

Commercial; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Team Leader to join our Finance team at Commercial.

Reporting to the Group Credit Manager, the Accounts Payable Team Leader will play a key role in ensuring the timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

Leading the Accounts Payable team, you will be responsible for setting clear objectives, providing coaching and development, and ensuring a high-quality, efficient service is delivered to the business.

As a key member of the Finance Management Team, you will work closely with the Finance Director and Financial Controller, proactively identifying and resolving any variances in the accounts.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a strong leader who is passionate about process improvement, team development, and delivering outstanding financial operations.

Your responsibilities as an Accounts Payable Team Leader will be:

• Ensure all supplier invoices are paid on time and accurately.
• Oversee the team's KPI's including suppliers' payments within set terms, manage and actively following risk processes, and monthly reconciliations.
• Carry out various reconciliations including monthly aged creditors, supplier statement reconciliations and other monthly reconciliations.
• Liaise with the accounting team to eliminate and correct errors and ensure that all data is accurate.
• Ensure that queries do not age and swift remedial action is taken.
• Implement and document best practice processes to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the teams.
• Continually review all processes, with a view to streamline, automate and increase efficiencies where possible.
• Ensure that the individual accounting functions interact efficiently.
• Create and lead a high performing team.
• Ensure compliance with HR, recruitment and payroll processes regarding team management.
• Establish positive working relationships with key stakeholders and maintain regular communications and responding to requests and performance issues in a timely manner.

About you:

• Excellent knowledge and experience of all Accounts Payable processes.
• Team leadership skills, and excellent communication skills: both written and verbal.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office with a good knowledge of Excel.
• A proactive, patient, and helpful approach to customers and colleagues.
• A willingness to be innovative, collaborative and flexible, driving for constant improvement and success within the Team, Department and Company.
• Meticulous attention to detail.

About us:

We are proud to be a successful, purpose-driven organisation that is on an exciting journey to achieve an annual turnover of £100m by 2025.

Commercial are business transformation specialists. We transform business impacts and experiences by applying original thinking to everyday practices.

We specialise in Managed IT, Smart Technologies, Managed Print Services, Technology, Interiors, Office Supplies, and PPE, Facilities and Workwear.

We invest in our people so they are experts in their field, excel within their environment and continue on a journey of growth and development, personalised to them.

We are #commercialbynature.

Benefits:

We commit to ensuring all our employees feel truly valued and appreciated for the work that they do, every day. As a member of the Commercial team, you will receive the following:

• A base salary between £32,000 - £35,000 per annum dependent on experience.
• An annual bonus scheme of £3,000, paid quarterly upon successful achievement of KPIs.
• Hybrid working structure with the flexibility to work from home for part of the week.
• A generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays, which increases with length of service.
• An enhanced family leave package to support you and your growing family.
• Life Insurance that offers a payment equivalent to four times your annual salary.
• Access to confidential support through our Employee Assistance programme and wellbeing support including a 24-hour GP service and physiotherapy.
• Free and expert mortgage and remortgaging advice for all members of the team, friends and families from leading broker Charles Cameron & Associates.
• Other benefits such as charity volunteering opportunities, pension, cycle to work scheme, flexible working structure and more.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Together, we are committed to attracting, including, inspiring, and developing our teams no matter their background, belief or way of life.

We embrace everyone's unique perspectives and create a genuine belonging for all.

At Commercial, we look to hire the very best people for our roles. Our team members are who we are and create the brand we are today.

We welcome all applicants regardless of your race, ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation. Even if you don't feel you completely fulfil all the requirements for this vacancy, we still encourage you to apply. It is our commitment to provide equal opportunities for all.