Accounts Payable Team Leader
- Recruiter
- Axon Moore LTD
- Location
- Oldham
- Salary
- £27000 - £30000 per annum, Benefits: plus benefits, hybrid working and study support
- Posted
- 12 Jan 2022
- Closes
- 31 Jan 2022
- Ref
- APTL/Old/HLB
- Contact
- Harriett Busby
- Job Title
- Accounts Payable
- Category
- Business Services
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
The Company
Axon Moore are exclusively recruiting an Accounts Payable Team Leader for a very well established and exciting company based in Oldham. Based in their national shared service centre, they have gone from strength to strength and have worked hard to establish an excellent working experience for all employees. They are now seeking an ambitious Team Leader with a strong background who is keen to learn in the role and add value to the wider team.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to assist the Transactional Manager and help run a team across Accounts Payable, while being hands on and a key point of contact for escalations and queries. You will encourage best practice and run an effective operation to ensure suppliers are paid on time and correctly, while looking at continuous improvement.
Salary – £27,000 - £30,000 depending on experience, hybrid working with flexible working hours, study support available.
Main Duties
Axon Moore are exclusively recruiting an Accounts Payable Team Leader for a very well established and exciting company based in Oldham. Based in their national shared service centre, they have gone from strength to strength and have worked hard to establish an excellent working experience for all employees. They are now seeking an ambitious Team Leader with a strong background who is keen to learn in the role and add value to the wider team.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to assist the Transactional Manager and help run a team across Accounts Payable, while being hands on and a key point of contact for escalations and queries. You will encourage best practice and run an effective operation to ensure suppliers are paid on time and correctly, while looking at continuous improvement.
Salary – £27,000 - £30,000 depending on experience, hybrid working with flexible working hours, study support available.
Main Duties
- Day to day management of the Accounts Payable team.
- Complete regular 1-2-1’s & team huddles.
- Performance management of staff and appraisals.
- Ensure that all outgoing payments are released and allocated right first time.
- Ensure that the Accounts Payable team are securing copies of all direct debit invoices to minimise any debit balances recorded within the creditor’s ledger.
- Manage the cost allocation of all consolidated invoices and credit cards.
- Contribute to continuous improvements within your role and the wider team to improve accuracy and to eliminate errors.
- Support the Accounts Payable team in escalating their queries within the business or with the Head of Transactional Services.
- Ensure cross functional support within the Accounts Payable team when required.
- Reporting – Aged creditors, unprocessed invoices, queried invoices, GL reconciliations and key KPI’s.
- Support ad hoc projects within the Accounts Payable team.
- To work collaboratively with all colleagues & stakeholders.
- Any other reasonable adhoc duties required from time to time.
- 3+ Years previous Accounts Payable experience.
- Previous experience of reporting KPI’s including SLA’s & OLA’s.
- Intermediate Excel (Pivot tables/Look ups) essential and use of Power BI is beneficial
- Experience using D365 accounting system is beneficial
- Confident communicator – Written and verbal.
- Self-starter.
- Good organisational skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritise.
- Performance driven and keen to exceed expectations.
- Proven Customer service experience.
- Excellent time management.
- Problem Solver (error detection, correction, and root cause analysis)