Finance Operations Supervisor

Overview

In this role you will lead and develop a transactional finance team within a recognised professional services firm, ensuring smooth day-to-day finance operations. You will act as the escalation point for complex queries and support peak period activities like month-end and audits. The role sits at the core of financial controls, handling reconciliations, payments, and supplier interactions to drive accurate reporting. This is a hands-on leadership position with scope to influence process improvements and transformation initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus
• hybrid working
• wider benefits package

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a transactional finance team with regular 1:1s, appraisals, and workload planning
• Act as escalation point for complex internal and external queries to resolve bottlenecks
• Oversee reconciliations (bank, credit card, intercompany ledgers) to maintain strong accounting controls
• Manage weekly payment runs and banking approvals for supplier payments and customer refunds
• Maintain creditor ledger via supplier statement reconciliations and account allocations
• Ensure direct cost invoices post on time to support accurate monthly accruals
• Provide support during peak month-end periods, year-end audits, and finance transformation projects

Key requirements

• Proven experience managing or supervising a transactional finance or Accounts Payable team
• Excellent reconciliation skills with exposure to intercompany accounting and multi-currency transactions
• Strong system literacy with experience using ERP systems and intermediate Excel
• Confident communicator across all levels of a business

• strong communication
• leadership and mentoring
• stakeholder management
• ERP systems experience
• Intercompany accounting
• Multi-currency transactions

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