Accounts Payable Team Leader
Working hours: Minimum 35 hours per week, Interview Date: To be confirmed
Additional information: Working a minimum of 40% across each month in the Territorial Headquarters, London, SE5 8FJ.
One of the UK’s most inspiring and best-known faith-based organisations is looking for an influential and highly motivated Accounts Payable Team Leader. The Accounts Payable function sits within the Finance Department and is based at the Territorial headquarters.It is a large, centralised processing team that provide a clear and transparent service, paying suppliers and employees in a timely manner. The department processes transactions including; purchase orders, purchase invoices, expenses, purchase card administration, miscellaneous sales invoices, income processing and payroll.
The team encompasses a data inputting function, a support team and an expenses function. The team deal with very high volumes of workload on average 8500 invoices per month.
As the Accounts Payable Team Leader, you will lead the team and ensure accurate and timely processing of invoices and responses to queries across the Salvation Army UKI. In addition, you will:
Manage your direct reports through the setting and delivery of objectives that align with the Finance processing team goals and SLAs, and motivating and developing the team to drive process improvement and performance.Support the development, implementation and maintenance of Dashboards KPIs and SLAs and drive process improvement to help ensure effective and efficient service provision for invoices and expenses.
Ensure the accurate validation of all invoices before they are matched to a purchase order (PO) and accurate coding to ensure authorisation can be obtained via the workflow.
Review, check and approve all relevant outgoing cash processes including vendor payment runs, faster payments and monitoring of direct debits; ensure the twice weekly payment runs are timely and accurate, enabling the maintenance of a clear ledger by ensuring all invoices and suppliers that have been withdrawn from the payment run are resolved in time for the next payment run.
The successful candidate(s) will be able to demonstrate:
Extensive Accounts Payable experience successfully working within a large and complex organisation with multi-site operating units across a range of operations.Experience of managing an Accounts Payable team, organizing and motivating the team to ensure efficiency and effectiveness; setting clear objectives ensuring deadlines are met, along with regular one to ones.
Experience of developing and delivering against KPIs and SLAs to successfully deliver process improvement and performance enhancement.
Good understanding of double entry accounting and experience of U4BW, Agresso or equivalent P2P ERP system.
In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.
Appointment subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK.
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Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.
Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.