Client Money Team Leader

**Client Money Team Leader - Payments - ARD951160 - Leeds (Hybrid)**

**Purpose of the Role**

This exciting hybrid opportunity has arisen to join a growing Finance team in Leeds ensuring client financial transactions relating to insurance broking are managed and recorded correctly. You will lead a transactional finance team in overseeing and managing client money processes and responsibilities, ensuring client money is transacted in a timely and correct manner across several disciplines. You will have line management of the team and manage financial escalations as well as process excellence.

**What you will do**

This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Collaborating with your line manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all the following:

- Motivate, develop, and inspire your team to achieve personal and team goals whilst managing team workloads ensuring SLAs and quality standards are met.
- Take responsibility for the accurate and timely processing of transactions for our partners, suppliers, and clients.
- Be a key contact for related escalations, complaints and change requests.
- You will need to have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail whilst being adaptable to changing environments and priorities to ensure deadlines are met.
- Complete agreed procedures to ensure we remain compliant with client and insurer money rules as governed by the FCA.
- Liaise and build relationships with senior business leaders ensuring support for one another to maximise individual and team contributions.
- Oversee and support external audits and ensure that all balances are appropriately supported and closed in line with deliverables.
- Act as the first line of defence in identifying, recording, and investigating FCA breaches.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to handle and analyse large amounts of data.
- Confident in onboarding new starters including liaising with IT to ensure all systems and requirements are in place.
- Take the lead or be part of ongoing project and changes within the business to ensure this is communicated to the team in an affective and timely manner.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Leadership experience essential (preferably in the financial sector)
- GCSE Maths and English (Grade C or equivalent and above).
- Excel to intermediate level.
- CASS 5 experience (not essential).

Most crucially for any applicant is your communication skills across all mediums, use of analytical and investigative skills to solve problems and the ability to respond positively to change.

This is an opportunity for a proactive, resourceful, self-motivated individual who is happy to lead a team and train others whilst working under pressure.

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family and be joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

- Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
- Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
- 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
- 1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities
- The Spotlight Awards, where we shine a light on the brightest talent across our group

Ardonagh Group is an equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.Why not check us out on LinkedIn to find out what life’s really like at Ardonagh.

The Ardonagh Group is one of the UK’s largest independent brokers with over 9000 dedicated and passionate professionals across the country, and worldwide, facing and dealing with our clients’ challenges, offering an enviable range of products, services and solutions to their clients. We are progressive, passionate and proud of the work we do, across all sectors of the business. Therefore, we need highly capable people to join our team to make this a reality

So if this sounds like you, and you are looking for a new challenge where you can learn and develop your career, then this could be a great opportunity for you.

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