Finance Team Leader

Finance Team Leader

• Oversee the group purchase and sales ledger invoicing, bank receipts, credits and refunds.
• Support and be involved the development of our finance systems.
• Take responsibility for key suppliers and customer accounts ensuring invoices are raised and accounts are reconciled regularly.
• Responsible for processing of regular payment runs.
• Ensure non-purchase ledger payments are posted and coded correctly.
• Oversee sales ledger journals/income accruals and month end reconciliations.
• Daily/weekly posting of treasury transactions daily and ensure bank reconciliations are undertaken regularly.
• Review and manage the allocation processes for both sales and purchase ledger ensuring payments and receipts have been allocated correctly and action and resolve account discrepancies.
• Review and manage the credit control process.
• Manage debtors with support from the Finance Business Partners as required.
• Assist and provide support in the audit process.
• Develop and report on a suite of team KPIs which you will monitor regularly and support the team to ensure they are met.
• Work with colleagues across the finance team to standardise processes and keep the finance manual up to date.
• Support the Financial Controller in training internal stakeholders on our finance systems and processes.
• Enforcing financial controls in accordance with our scheme of delegation.
• Provide excellent customer service, manage, and maintain good relationships and strong links with the internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the Financial Controller as required
• Maintain effective financial controls within the sales and purchasing functions.
• Manage, motivate and provide support to the finance assistants including holding daily/weekly catch -ups and 121 supervision meetings, and annual appraisals and staff development.
• Manage, motivate, train and develop finance assistants.
• Ensure staff and volunteers have the information and skills to deliver a quality service
• providing support with other ad hoc financial tasks as required.

• AAT qualified, working towards the qualification or qualified by experience (at least 3 years in a similar role or managing a finance function)

• Experience in day to day running of a finance office.
• Experience in accounts processing and reconciliations to TB level.
• Experience of manging other staff, coaching & mentoring.
• Good organisation skills & methodical with good time management skills, used to delivering to tight timetables.
• Knowledge & understanding of internal controls & core accounting systems and processes.
• Intermediate level in Excel spreadsheet skills.
• Able to evidence effective use of own judgement, & ability to work proactively while unsupervised.
• Able to build good working relationships at all levels within the charity.

• Working knowledge of accounting systems in a multi company/cost centre environment.
• Exposure to budget preparation & monitoring.
• Experience of preparation of
• Management accounts and annual accounts.