Accounts Payable Team Leader

4 months ago


Blackburn, United Kingdom EG Group Full time

**Role**:Accounts Payable Team Leader

**Location**:Blackburn,

**Contract**:Full-Time Hours / Permanent

**Salary**:£27,000 - £36,575 Dependent on experience & Discretionary Bonus Scheme

**Company**: EG Group

**About the Role**

We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Team Leader to join our ever-growing finance team.

Reporting into the Financial Controller, you will be responsible for overseeing all administration within the department whilst also helping to lead and motivate a team and assist with their training and development.

This role is ideal for an experienced, reliable and pro-active Accounts Payable enthusiast who thrives working in a fast-paced environment and will strive to ensure the accurate and efficient processing of our global EG invoices.

If you are ready to take the next step in your career, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Lead and motivate a team of Accounts Payable Specialists - Managing and coordinating the day to day activities of the AP Team
- Exhibit positive role model behaviour, ensuring an environment that promotes a professional, open culture, fosters teamwork, flexibility, and enables continuous development of the team
- Identification of process improvement opportunities, and creation of action plans
- Support the integration of new technologies
- Create and monitor a system of controls, procedures, and forms for the recordation of fixed assets - Manage effective controls around AP processes
- Ensure the timely and accurate processing of invoices/credits received including, coding and posting of invoices
- Ensure that non purchase order invoices obtain the necessary level of authorisation
- Reconciling supplier's statements to AP Ledger and GRNI (goods received not invoiced), ensuring all discrepancies are resolved
- Ensure accurate Supplier statement reconciliations, GRNI ageing, Debit balances, KPI, On hold invoice reporting, Cash flow forecasting, Inter company, AP sub ledger, prepayment reconciliations, Manual payment trackers and Highest 1st time failures are all actioned by deadlines
- Weekly Payment runs for all currencies are accurate and on time
- Build excellent relationships with Suppliers and internal departments to resolve any queries on a timely basis
- Review suppliers and approvals for new suppliers
- Manage internal escalation of queries to ensure that they are dealt with in a timely manner and be the initial escalation point of contact for Construction and Fixed Assets AP team
- Communication, teamwork and collaboration are key, and you will be able to manage multiple priorities and competing demands.
- Assisting team with general Accounts Payable duties
- This list is not exhaustive and may be added to or amended from time to time_
- Demonstrate experience of working within similar Accounts Payable roles
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Previous experience of working with ERP systems
- Proficient administration, numerical, planning and organizational skills
- A comprehensive understanding of the 'purchase to pay' process
- Knowledge of general accounting procedures
- Proficient and accurate in data entry and management
- Accounts payable or general accounting experience
- Strong coaching and people management skills
- Analytical skills covering written, graphic, numerical & statistical information
- Hands on, forward thinking and trustworthy leader who leads by example
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise work load

**Desirable**
- Previous experience of working with SAP
- Previous experience of working within a managerial role
- Previous experience within a dynamic, responsive, fast paced team
- Experience of working within a Shared Service Centre environment
- Implemented new technologies
- Previous Experience of working within a Finance Shared Service Centre
- Who are EG Group?_
- EG Group is one of the world’s leading independent convenience retailers with an extensive network of sites across international markets in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Continental Europe, Australia and the United States of America._
- Founded in 2001 by the Issa family with the acquisition of a single site in the UK, today the company is at the forefront of delivering an innovative approach to forecourt convenience retail._
- At EG Group, we pride ourselves on being recognised for our investment model, trading performance and more importantly, providing a best-in-class customer experience in Grocery & Merchandise, Foodservice and Fuel._
- Our transformational convenience retail business model has been built upon excellent relationships with an extensive portfolio of leading retail brands, and through strategic network acquisitions supported by a program of new-to-industry developments._
- Every day, our committed workforce tirelessly delivers our products and services to millions of customers alongside supporting the local communities in which we operate._



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