Accounts Payable Team Leader

6 months ago


Poole, United Kingdom Lush Full time

**Description**:
**Accounts Payable Team Leader**

**Lush Finance Team**

**Salary**: £28,000 - £32,000 per annum

**Location**: Fleets Corner, Poole

**Diversity matters**

We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future.

We see you, we celebrate you, we want you

**Who we are**
You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.

The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.

**The Role**

**Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Overseeing and supervising the timely and accurate recording of invoices on the accounts system, processing them onto the paperless office approval system, and verification of pricing and appropriate authorisation for all purchase invoices.
- Reviewing the weekly payment runs including GBP and other currencies, and preparing ad-hoc same day payments as and when required for urgent payments.
- Forecasting of weekly cash requirements and liaising with the Group Treasurer.
- Develop and provide regular reporting on the status of the Accounts Payable ledgers, including Aged creditor reports, proforma payments, GRNI - reviewing and actioning any outstanding items, debit balances, missing invoices, payments taken.
- Ensuring supplier accounts are kept up to date, including sending payment remits as required, regular reconciliation of supplier statements and answering any queries.
- Supporting non Finance teams with any Purchase Orders queries, workflow issues and credit card holders with queries and changes needed.
- Agreeing intercompany invoices received between Group companies each month.
- Processing lease invoices, council taxes and reconciling utility accounts and ensuring direct debit accounts are reconciled monthly.
- Manage the staff expenses process, both cash and credit cards, including administration, coding, liaising with credit card holders, credit card accruals.
- Support month end, year end and audit with the review of financial transactions for specific general ledger accounts to ensure accurate cost allocation.

**Team Responsibilities**
- Dealing with staff fairly and effectively, and ensuring work is allocated evenly and sufficiently, in order to cover for absences.
- Set priorities and coordinate the team to ensure timely processing to meet all deadlines.
- Responsible for training of new staff, on processes, systems and day-to-day queries including answering coding and document queries raised by the team on both POs and S&A payments.
- Carrying out regular 1:1 meetings and performance reviews with the team.
- Paperless system administration: Amending access, creating new users on paperless systems and answering user queries.
- Any other ad-hoc duties as requested by the Finance Managers.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- 3+ years experience in a finance role and working in a team
- Strong Excel, IT and online banking skills, including Google Suite
- Great communication skills and a friendly telephone manner
- Able to lead a team and encourage individuals providing the right feedback and support to ensure they thrive in their roles
- ‘Can do’ approach with the ability to build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Experience with systems including Therefore, QAD, ABBYY, Xero, Zahara, Rydoo would be advantageous
- Culturally, someone who is interested in Lush and our ethics
- Studying towards finance qualification is desirable but not essential (study support may be available)

**Benefits**:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Study support available for accounting qualifications
- 6 months’ full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver)
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Bonus scheme
- Day off for weekday birthdays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets
- Employee assistance programme
- Financial childcare support on return to work
- We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
- Support groups, film nights, yoga, meditation sessions and m



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