Purchase Ledger - Team Leader

Rygor Group; Westbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday day off

23 days annual leave + BH

Branding and boot allowance

Excellent workplace awards

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

Rygor Group is seeking a Purchase Ledger Team Leader to guide a busy ledger team across our network. You will oversee daily ledgers, mentor staff, and partner with the Finance Manager to ensure timely month-end close and accurate supplier reporting.

The role requires experience in a group setting, strong leadership, and excellent communication. You will champion accuracy, process improvements, and staff development in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team in a finance environment.
• Strong understanding of purchase ledger processes across multiple businesses.
• Proficient in Excel and financial reporting.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to plan, organise, delegate and lead staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the daily operations of the purchase ledger team.
• Support Finance Manager and deputise on ledger matters.
• Build a high-performing, process-driven team culture.
• Ensure month-end tasks and reconciliations are completed accurately.
• Provide accurate reporting on aged creditors and supplier statements.
• Coach and develop team members through onboarding and 1:1s.

Skills

Leadership

Purchase Ledger

Excel

Communication

Multi-site

Delegation

Tools

Excel

Job description

Your role

Are you a natural leader with a passion for teamwork and making a difference? We’re looking for a Purchase Ledger Team Leader to guide and inspire our dedicated Purchase Ledger Team. In this role, you’ll bring flexibility, initiative, strength and a collaborative spirit to the table, supporting colleagues, delighting customers, and partnering with management and directors to achieve shared goals. If you take pride in helping others succeed and thrive on building a positive, high-performing team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Role Level on the Rygor Career Journey Map: M1, Team Leader

Rygor is an official UK Best Workplace for Development, and we are committed to helping you achieve your goals, which is why we have a career journey map to help you understand your potential routes of development. As an individual contributor, you carry out your role to the highest standards, living and breathing our company values of being Rewarding, Reliable and Respectful. You take pride in your work and collaborate with others to ensure the job gets done.

What’s it like to be part of Team Rygor?

“It’s a great place work, with lots of opportunities and great people to work with. I have progressed from being the Receptionist to now assisting with all aspects of health and safety in branch.” – Caroline

Day to day, you will be:

• As our Purchase Ledger Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping a high-performing team while keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes. Your days will be varied, rewarding, and filled with opportunities to make a real impact by implementing ideas and initiatives to help ensure efficiency.
• Step up as a trusted deputy – support the Finance Manager by taking the lead on all purchase ledger matters whenever required.
• A strong communicator and comfortable talking with suppliers.
• Lead and support the team – oversee daily operations of the purchase ledger team, solve escalated issues, and make sure everything runs like clockwork.
• Keep us on track – ensure deadlines are met and month-end close runs seamlessly across all ledgers.
• Inspire and motivate – create a positive, efficient, and quality-driven working culture where the team feels supported and empowered especially during busy periods.
• A problem solver - you are a solutions-driven individual.
• Invest in people – monitor skills, identify training needs, and provide ongoing coaching to help every team member grow and succeed.
• Guide and develop talent – manage onboarding and training for new hires, while supporting regular 1:1s, probation reviews, and performance appraisals.
• Own the numbers – deliver accurate and insightful reporting for the Finance Manager, including aged creditors, reconciliations, duplicate invoice checks, and verification analysis.
• Protect accuracy and quality – review work to ensure accuracy, resolve issues, and put improvements in place where needed.
• Collaborate on key accounts and ensuring regular, accurate reporting – handle aged creditor analysis, unallocated reporting, verification analysis, duplicate invoicing assessment and rectification, reporting and monitoring efficient and accurate supplier statement reconciliations, resolving held invoices on the ledgers, reconciliations and maintenance of key accounts, company payments and administration of invoices for all businesses within the group.
• Adapt and support – step in with ad-hoc duties to keep the Finance function moving forward.

About you

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Experience working in a Group setting, so you are used to working across multiple businesses.
• A strong and resilient, experienced leader who inspires those around them and understands the commercial nature of their role.
• Excellent communication, motivational and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in Excel
• Ability to plan, organise, delegate, use initiative, provide leadership to staff and report to management.
• Self-confident, assertive, and ability to adapt.
• Professional approach and customer service orientation

We’re proud to be an award-winning team committed to our people and their development. When you join Rygor, you’re not just joining a business, you’re joining a team that genuinely cares.

• A day off for your Birthday
• 23 days of annual leave per year plus Bank Holidays (increase with long service)
• Branded uniform and boot allowance.
• Working for an official Great Place to Work and UK Best Workplace for three years running!
• Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing
• Working for a UK Best Workplace for Development
• Working with our award-winning team – we have been named Service Provider of the Year at the WhatVan? Awards and winners of the Employer of the Year category at the Motor Trader CV Industry awards.
• Recipients of the Silver Award under the Armed Forces Covenant
• Auto-enrolment pension
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies
• Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion)
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards
• Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities
• Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training hub
• Long service recognition

We’re looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals. You can read more about our values and the behaviours on our website.