Transactional Services Manager

Sweco is Europe's leading design, engineering, environment and regulatory consultancy with 23,000 colleagues across the UK and Europe. Sweco has been transforming how people live, work and travel for over 130 years. We deliver innovative solutions for a more inclusive, healthy and sustainable society.

The Sweco UK & Ireland Business Area is a £112m t/o business with 1,000 employees.

Purpose Of The Job
As Transactional Services Manager UK&I you will proactively lead and develop the Transactional Services Team for the UK&I region as part of the UK&I Finance Team.

You will be responsible for identifying automation opportunities and process improvements whilst ensuring key KPIs and BAU requirements are met across Accounts Receivable / Billing / Accounts Payable (including Supplier Management and onboarding) / Credit Control / Expenses.

You will be based out of our Leeds office, with a minimum of 3 days in the office. Please note that we will be moving to a new office in Leeds city centre in May 2026.

Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Leading the Transactional Services Team (c. 9 Team Members), creating a culture of high performance and encouraging the Team to contribute to their success. You will be responsible for performance appraisal and the development of all team members.
• Own the Team processes with a focus on proactively improving these through automation, process improvement and team development.
• Responsibility for ensuring payments are made in a controlled, accurate and timely manner and that reconciliations are completed. You will be key in protecting our cash position.
• Ensuring compliance and risk is an important focus of the Team, adhering to both external and Group requirements. You'll be a key support to a number of audits.
• Being a main point of contact with the wider business (including our Group colleagues), involved with policy setting, communications on Finance processes that will impact the business (such as payment schedules), and a point of escalation and support, ensuring any issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Leading liaison with 3 rd party service suppliers such as Onguard and Pagero. You will also engage with our banking providers.
• Reporting to the Business Area Financial Controller and collaborating with and supporting the BAFC team.

To Be Successful In The Role You Will Have

• Professional membership/qualifications – Degree/CICM/ACAPP/APA or similar.
• A good balance of technical ability gained in similar roles along with leadership skills and significant previous management experience.
• Strong experience of building reports, analysing financial data and acting on the results, ideally with Power BI expertise (or similar).
• Commercial acumen with a strong understanding of how your Team impact trade working capital and profitability – Capacity to influence decision-making within the business.
• Ability to influence and collaborate – experience of working with and influencing up to Director level.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience of meeting challenging internal client needs.
• Professional expertise – A proven track record of leadership in Accounts Receivable / Credit Control / Accounts Payable. A strong understanding of the Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) processes.
• Experience of delivering across a multi-site organisation would be an advantage.

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we'd love to hear from you.

About Us
Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients' most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
It's important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more
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We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those "hard to fill" roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2024 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We'll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2025 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.

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