Accounts Payable Team Leader

Reference 46211

Accounts Payable Team Leader

Erdington,Birmingham

£33,000.00 per annum

37.5 hours per week

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.

The Group consists of;
- Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
- Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering person-centred care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Head of Transactional Finance, the Team Leader will provide a customer focused approach to both our internal and external customers. The post will manage the payment financial transactions team of two staff members:

- Managing 3 Finance Assistants on Accounts Payable/Rent Transactions
- Ensuring payment processes are adhered to including the set up of Purchase Orders, proper authorisations in place in line with our Financial Regulations.
- Payments are processed accurately on Accounts Payable efficiently
- To oversee cover on Rent Management System on Income.
- Ensuring Council tax payment management.
- Ensuring Managing cover on Rent Transactions
- Maintaining a strong audit trail for all transactions.
- Working with the Head of Transactional Finance to report and manage KPI’s relevant to the performance of the team.

**About You**
- At least 2 years experience with supervising an AP team
- Experience of managing rent transactions on Housing Management System - desirable
- Experience of reporting on KPI’s
- AAT qualified or working towards completion of AAT - Desirable
- Excellent communication and influencing skills both with the team and the wider business.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills.
- Good knowledge of Excel and other MS packages and a sound knowledge of Finance and reporting Systems.
- Able to motivate teams and contribute as team player, demonstrating previous experience of Managing a team.
- Organise own time and prioritise workloads, achieving timetables and deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective liaison with internal and external partners.
- Manage Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within Trident and the team.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- communicating and promoting vacancies
- offering an interview to disabled people
- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

**Applying**

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.