Accounts Payable Team Leader

We're currently recruiting for an Accounts Payable Team Leader to join our Finance Shared Service Centre (FSSC). This role will provide management of a sub team of Accounts Payable Administrators with responsibility for the timely and accurate resolution of all vendor and internal customer queries.

The FSSC is a forward-thinking organisation that successfully operates a fully agile way of working, which will provide you with the option to work from home and a minimum of two days per week from our Salford Quays office. Our ways of working support high standards of service delivery and puts trust in our colleagues to deliver.

Location: Salford - hybrid working available, with travel to the office required 1-2 days per week

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As an Accounts Payable Team Leader, your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Management of a team of 6 Finance Assistants in a flexible/hybrid working, high certificate volume environment to maintain compliance with relevant Construction sector tax regulations.
• Co-ordinating staff and work-related issues, particularly about planning and organising work schedules.
• Reporting to Purchase to Pay Manager, taking accountability for the daily work allocation, performance measurement and team management.
• Ensuring that all queries and issues are resolved within the agreed Service Level Agreement.
• Partnering with and deliver great service to customers and key stakeholders, working across organisational boundaries (Group Procurement, IT, wider finance, Commercial and sites).  
• Be the primary escalation point for the resolution of issues across the team from the business or the vendor. 
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This role of Accounts PayableTeam Leader is great for you if you have:

• Experience managing medium sized teams, ideally within an Accounts Payable Shared Service function or other core transactional / financial processes in a complex business environment.
• Experience of the construction industry and DRC/ CIS tax environment.
• Experience managing/ leading change projects into Accounts Payable or similar teams.
• Strong knowledge of principles, practices, regulations and procedures relating to Accounts Payable function.
• Experience of Oracle and Causeway systems as a preference (but other financial systems experience is acceptable). 
• Organise own workload and to reprioritise at short notice in order to meet deadlines
  
  
  

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier