Accounts Payable Team Leader

Title: Accounts Payable Team Leader

Location: Grangemouth

Salary: Competitive

Contract type: Permanent

About Us

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A truly global company, INEOS comprises of 36 businesses with 194 sites in 29 countries throughout the world. We also encompass a range of consumer brands and sports interests.

INEOS O&P UK Grangemouth is a petrochemicals centre of excellence. We are the largest manufacturing site in Scotland. We pride ourselves in offering a working environment that is friendly and welcoming, that offers employees true autonomy and empowerment and that enables everyone to achieve their goals and to have a fulfilling professional career with us.

Our aim, as always, is to find new, improved ways of doing things. Whether that’s through improving the energy efficiency of our plants, developing new ways of working or delivering on our net zero promises, we like to push boundaries and overcome challenges.

If you share our vision for a sustainable future; if you possess the skills and competencies to help deliver our net zero road map; if you want to play your part in the remarkable next step in the UK petrochemical sector, we’d like to hear from you.

About Our Opportunity

We are currently looking for an Accounts Payable Team Leader to join the European Accounting Team working on-site at our office in Grangemouth. The Accounts Payable Team provides a service to a number of businesses based both in the UK and abroad.

This person will lead and manage the Accounts Payable team of nine in the performance of their duties to ensure that all invoices are processed and paid in a timely manner as according to our internal controls and accounting requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Management, motivation and development of a team of nine.
• Responsibility for supervising the invoice processing, scanning and payment for a number of entities within our portfolio – approx. 50,000 docs per annum.
• Daily review and approval of payment runs, checking invoice and payment information accuracy for approximately 22,000 transactions per annum.
• Department deals with over 1,800 active suppliers.
• Liaise with Treasury team to ensure correct daily transfer of funds and ensure accurate daily and weekly cash forecasting.
  
  

About You

Required:

• Management, motivation and development of a team of nine.
• Responsibility for supervising the invoice processing, scanning and payment for a number of entities within our portfolio – approx. 50,000 docs per annum.
• Daily review and approval of payment runs, checking invoice and payment information accuracy for approximately 22,000 transactions per annum.
• Department deals with over 1,800 active suppliers.
• Liaise with Treasury team to ensure correct daily transfer of funds and ensure accurate daily and weekly cash forecasting.
• Ensure invoices are processed and matched correctly against purchase orders, with any non PO related items being approved in line with company policy.
• Ensuring the appropriate controls are developed and operated in order to maintain the quality and integrity of financial information.
• Overall responsibility for issue resolution with suppliers, procurement and internal users, to ensure the best quality of service is provided to the business.
• Respond to queries received from the business units in Europe, providing support and feedback where required.
• Collation, analysis and monitoring of department metrics, enabling appropriate allocation and prioritisation of Accounts Payable workload.
• To drive the standardising and streamlining of the Accounts Payables Process with the purchase of goods and services being sufficiently controlled.
• Accounts Payable Process documentation and maintenance. Training manual created for referral and training purposes within the department.
• Regular review of supplier statement reconciliations to establish that all items are being captured, followed up and recorded on our systems.
• Debit balance review to determine if the data is accurate on our systems, with any monies due back to the company being followed up by the Payables team.
• First point of contact for the audit team in respect of Accounts Payable matters.
  
  

Desired:

• Strong people management and leadership skills.
• Previous experience of managing an Accounts Payable team of 5 or more staff, preferably within a multinational organisation.
• SAP knowledge for Accounts Payable and basic accounting skills.
• Knowledge of VAT and Intrastat advantageous.
• Pro-active and self-motivating attitude.
• Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Computer literate to enable development of automated tasks.
• Ability to work to very tight deadlines.
  
  

What We Offer

• 34 days holiday (optional salary sacrifice to purchase up to 5 extra days).
• Benefits Platform – access to discounts on high street stores etc., Discounted Private Medical Insurance, Travel Insurance etc.
• Up to 20% Discretionary Bonus Opportunity.
• Scottish Widows Contributory Pension including employer contributions.
• Free On-site Gym.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced Maternity Leave.
• Salary Sacrifice Car and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Ongoing Career Development.
  
  

How To Apply

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit their CV via our website.

Formal Interview

Successful applicants will be invited to interview which will consist of behavioural and technical questions.

Provisional Offer

If you are selected as the preferred candidate you will receive a provisional offer which will be subject to a medical assessment and reference checks. Some roles may also require a criminality check.

Additional Information

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application, assessment and on-boarding stages. If you would like to discuss any adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process please contact [email protected].