Transactional Team Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Transactional Finance Team Leader to join an established organisation in a key leadership position. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a background in finance including accounts payable, accounts receivable and cost management who enjoys leading teams and driving operational performance.

You’ll take ownership of the day-to-day running of the team, overseeing workloads, managing performance against SLAs and KPIs, and ensuring financial processes are completed accurately and efficiently. Responsibilities will include reviewing reconciliations, budget reviews, queries, alongside monitoring outstanding balances, resolving complex issues and maintaining strong relationships with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Alongside operational delivery, you’ll play a key role in developing your team, strengthening financial controls and identifying opportunities to improve processes through standardisation and automation. You’ll also contribute to performance reporting, audit requirements and wider business improvements, making this an excellent opportunity to combine people leadership with hands-on financial operations.

Skills Required

• Proven experience of key achievements including streamlining processes, or implementation of new systems.
• Proven experience managing/supervising a team including training new staff members and setting targets.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, reconciliations, budget reviews, financial controls and query resolution.
• Have the ability to not be afraid to get stuck in. Not only will you be the point of escalation, but also have involvement in the day-to-day operations.
• Be an ambitious and hard-working individual, who is looking to further their career and gain valuable knowledge from experts within the field
• Be a confident and outgoing individual with great communication skills, as you will regularly engage with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

What You Will Receive

• A key leadership position, with responsibility for team performance, development and operational delivery.
• The opportunity to work in a business that is ever-growing, consistently developing and striving to be the best they can be!
• Commercial and client exposure, working with multiple stakeholders across finance and operations.
• A great benefit packaged, with a great holiday allowance, pensions scheme and extra benefits programme.
• A varied and influential role, combining financial operations, reporting, risk management and people management.

Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced transactional finance professional ready to lead a team, improve service delivery and take ownership of a complex operational function.

If you’re a confident people leader with strong financial controls knowledge and a passion for continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you.