Accounts Payable Team Leader - Stock Team

Accounts Payable Team Leader - Stock Team

Reports to: Accounts Payable Manager

Role

• Day to day supervision of a small team to include managing workload, 1-2-1s, individual development and performance, recruitment and onboarding.
• Monitor invoice processing to ensure your team's compliance with processing SLAs and the creation of accurate financial data.
• Monitor the inbox to ensure payment and account queries are being responded to quickly, accurately, and professionally by your team members and take the lead on resolving complex payment and account queries.
• Monitor the ageing of expense claims and approvals and use this to drive actions within your team and the business.
• Monitor ageing of invoice approvals and ensure your team are proactively following up with budget holders on ageing approvals to ensure compliance with the SLA.
• Oversee your team to deliver weekly multi-currency payment runs to deadline. Ensure your team use reporting on duplicates, held invoices and debit balances to maintain a high degree of payment accuracy.
• Ensure your team set up requested inter-account transfers accurately and in a timely manner.
• Oversee the non-standard payment process and ensure approval from the business in line with the matrix and validation of bank details.
• Oversee your team to ensure all period-end processes have been completed prior to ledger close. This includes timely processing of all payments and D/Ds.
• Manage risk within the purchase ledger by monitoring completion of supplier statement reconciliations and through your review of aged creditor reporting. Use both to drive actions for team members to minimize risk.
• Provide a periodic reporting pack for review and discussion with your line manager. This pack should include reports such as duplicates, aged creditors, statement log, debit balances, and vendor master data changes.
• Understand the Accounts Payable team KPIs and use these to drive focus and performance of your team.
• Ensure your team always understands and is compliant with the policies and procedures of the Accounts Payable team.
• Suggest enhancements to policies and procedures to improve overall efficiency and financial control of the Accounts Payable team. Provide key support in the delivery of transformation initiatives.
• Provide supporting documentation for the audit and respond to complex audit queries.
• Provide support and/or cover to other Accounts Payable Team Leaders (Stock and Property) and the Accounts Payable Manager.
• Review new vendor set ups and changes to ensure compliance with core Accounts Payable Controls and high-quality master data.

Skills and Experience

• Expert in data manipulation using Excel.
• Understanding of the customs process.
• Prior high volume multi-currency Accounts Payable experience.
• Prior experience overseeing a team.
• Excellent attention to detail, performing all work with high levels of accuracy.
• Good spoken and written communication skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple competing priorities and delivering to deadline.

Open, friendly person who is proactive.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Holiday allowance.
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends.
• Pension scheme.

In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service. The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour's kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology. Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do. As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces. Welcome to our journey.