Finance Team Leader

Henry Boot; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Electric and hybrid vehicle leasing (s

Bonus scheme

Pension AVIVA

Life insurance

Digital GP app

Cycle to Work salary sacrifice

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Henry Boot in Sheffield is seeking a Finance Team Leader to run the ledger function, oversee purchase and sales ledgers and treasury activities, and develop a team of Finance Assistants. You will ensure accurate, efficient financial processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

This role blends people leadership with hands-on finance operations, offering scope to influence day-to-day performance and longer‑term financial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience within a purchase ledger, sales ledger or wider finance operations environment.
• Previous experience managing, supervising or supporting a team.
• Strong Excel and financial systems experience.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• A proactive approach to problem solving and process improvement.
• The ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced environment and manage competing priorities.
• AAT qualification, experience of Business Central and knowledge of the construction industry or CIS would be advantageous, but are not essential.

Responsibilities

• Leading, supporting and developing the ledger team
• Driving high standards of accuracy and financial control
• Monitoring performance through KPIs and helping the team achieve its objectives
• Overseeing purchase ledger, sales ledger and treasury processes
• Supporting cashflow management and financial reporting
• Building strong relationships with colleagues, suppliers and customers
• Identifying and implementing process improvements that deliver greater efficiency and effectiveness across the finance function.

Skills

Finance operations

Team leadership

Microsoft Excel

Financial systems

Attention to detail

Process improvement

Problem solving

Tools

Business Central

Job description

Henry Boot is one of the UK’s leading land, property development and home building businesses, renowned for transforming land and spaces.

Founded in Sheffield in 1886, Henry Boot was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1919. Today, our reputation is built on quality, expertise, delivery and a partnership approach. We focus on three long-term growth markets: residential, industrial and logistics, and urban development. Our group of businesses consists of Banner Plant, Hallam Land, HBD, Road Link and Stonebridge. Together, we are where great places start.

We're looking for a Finance Team Leader to join our Group Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong finance operations background who enjoys leading people, improving processes and making a real impact on business performance.

About the role

You’ll lead our ledger function, overseeing purchase ledger, sales ledger and treasury activities while supporting and developing a team of Finance Assistants. You’ll play a key role in ensuring financial processes run smoothly, accurately and efficiently, while helping to identify opportunities for continuous improvement across the function.

This is a varied position that combines people leadership with hands‑on financial operations, giving you the opportunity to influence both day‑to‑day performance and longer‑term improvements.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading, supporting and developing the ledger team
• Driving high standards of accuracy and financial control
• Monitoring performance through KPIs and helping the team achieve its objectives
• Overseeing purchase ledger, sales ledger and treasury processes
• Supporting cashflow management and financial reporting
• Building strong relationships with colleagues, suppliers and customers
• Identifying and implementing process improvements that deliver greater efficiency and effectiveness across the finance function.

What we’re looking for

We’re interested in hearing from candidates who have:

• Experience within a purchase ledger, sales ledger or wider finance operations environment
• Previous experience managing, supervising or supporting a team
• Strong Excel and financial systems experience
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• A proactive approach to problem solving and process improvement
• The ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced environment and manage competing priorities.

An AAT qualification, experience of Business Central and knowledge of the construction industry or CIS would be advantageous, but are not essential.

Our offer:

We are passionate about our people, and we are committed to your career development with us. You will have full access to our People Development team, and we encourage you to consider your personal development desires. We pride ourselves on fully supporting you in undertaking development and education to achieve your goals and objectives.

We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.

• We pay you a competitive salary - we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
• We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;
• We share our financial success with our bonus scheme;
• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
• We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our Digital GP app;
• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
• We give you 24days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
• We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however you become a parent;
• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
• We cover the cost of professional membership fees for recognised bodies such as CIPD, RICS, CIAT, and others, supporting your continued professional development.
• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
• We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

We put our people first. As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work.

We ensure our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably, should you wish to discuss any adjustments please contact our people team ([e-mail])

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time in advance of the closing date.

We are unable to accept applications from agencies who have not been directly instructed to act on our behalf, this includes communications shared with hiring managers, for more information, see the recruitment agency disclaimer on our Careers home page.