Finance Supervisor

We are excited to be working with a client based near Morpeth in their search for a Finance Supervisor. The purpose of the role is to supervise and be responsible for the group companies’ finance ledgers and provide support to the finance personnel responsiblefor the day-to-day processing and accounting. The role will be the point of contact for any escalated, ledger based queries or disputes.

**Responsibilities**:
**Sales Ledger**
- Overall responsibility of sales ledger activity ensuring all invoices are posted in a timely manner.
- Responsibility for all credit control activities.
- Factoring facility liaison person and dealing with all associated queries, limits, disputes etc.
- Set up customer accounts and liaising details with factoring company.
- Supporting the collection of retention debts owed.
- Regular reviews of the sales order books.

**Purchase Ledger**
- Overall responsibility of the purchase ledger activity ensuring all invoices are processed correctly and in line with company policies.
- Ensure all processing is carried out by deadline dates set to allow for a swift month end close.
- Seek authorisation of any Non-PO related expenditure.
- Management of all supplier payment runs and co-ordinating ad-hoc and urgent payments that are required to support the emergency nature of the business.
- Set up Supplier Accounts.
- Dealing with any escalated supplier issues.
- Regular ledger reviews for aged, unpaid balances.

**Expenses**
- Overall management and co-ordination of the internal expenses systems.

**Payroll**
- Review and authorisation of each companies’ weekly and or monthly payroll.
- Internal payroll reporting as required.
- Payment of Deduction from Earnings Orders.
- Payroll accounting support.
- Provide backup payroll processing support to the Payroll/HR Co-ordinator for planned holiday and unexpected absence.

**Cashflow**
- Daily update of the working cashflow forecast.

**Accounts**
- Preparation of month end unprocessed/disputed invoice schedules for accounting.
- Assisting and supporting with any internal audits required.
- Support the annual external group financial audit.

**Supervision
**Supervision of 6 companies’ ledgers and support to 4 x Finance Administrators.

**Person Specification**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a busy fast paced Finance role with supervision of other finance staff.
- Ideally will hold a suitable accounting / bookkeeping qualification (i.e AAT).
- Experienced and comfortable user of all aspects of SAGE 50 Accounts
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Outlook and Excel.
- A resilient person, able to manage workloads to meet deadlines, and work independently, changing priorities to meet with business needs.
- Ability to build positive working relationships with suppliers, customers and other members of staff, both verbally and in writing.
- Have excellent analytical and numerical skills.
- Minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grade C and above including Maths and English.