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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