Accounts Payable Team Leader in Stroud

About The Role

Working within Ecotricity's Group Finance operation this role leads Accounts Payable, managing a small team. It’s a challenging and rewarding position that requires strong leadership, excellent attention to detail and the ability to work to strict timelines - all while maintaining outstanding customer service and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. You’ll be instrumental in achievement of team goals, responsible for work allocation, and performance and quality review. You will work with others to deliver change in Accounts Payable as part of our business transformation, increasing automation and increasing use of system functionality in end-to-end processes.

Team

Reporting to the Transactional Finance Manager, you’ll be part of a dynamic and professional Finance team. Finance operates in a fast-paced environment, so flexibility, positivity and a can-do attitude are essential. You’ll also have opportunities to contribute to project-based initiatives across the Ecotricity Group, helping to deliver consistent, high-quality financial services.

Core responsibilities

• Lead and support the Accounts Payable team, acting as the primary escalation point for internal queries and external suppliers.
• Oversee all aspects of the purchase ledger, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timeliness.
• Manage and monitor the aged payables.
• Oversee team work allocation – monitoring and assigning work in the automated invoice work area to ensure timely and accurate processing.
• Maintain and update all process documentation for Accounts Payable.
• Conduct ongoing performance management, including goal setting, quality reviews and development planning.
• Liaise with buyers for invoice and purchase order authorisations and resolve issues.
• Review and authorise weekly and ad hoc payment runs.
• Regularly review and validate invoices processed, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
• Manage supplier account reconciliations and work with suppliers to resolve any differences.
• Ensure the timely completion of Accounts Payable's month-end reporting and review requirements.
• Oversee quarterly self-billing invoices and intercompany management charges.

Additional responsibilities

• Work closely with the wider Finance team, providing support and resolving ad hoc queries.
• Educate and support staff across the business on purchase order processes and invoice best practices.
• Provide cover elsewhere in Transactional Finance where required.
• Produce and maintain performance and quality reporting through use of systems.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews and team development sessions.
• Undertake any other ad hoc duties as required by managers or Head of Department.

About You

Essential skills & experience

• Excellent understanding of accounts payable and general ledger processes.
• Proven experience in a busy finance department and leading small to medium-sized teams.
• In-depth knowledge of purchase ledger processing and ability to drill down when required.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build rapport and manage stakeholder relationships.
• High level of accuracy, numeracy and problem-solving ability.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Desirable

• Experience using Workday.
• Qualified to AAT Level 3 and above, or alternative finance qualifications.
• Knowledge of Power Query / Power BI.

About Us

What’s in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution.
• Volunteering Day.
• Hybrid Working.
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events).
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days.
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available.

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind. Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy. We don’t just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass. We don’t just focus on energy though – we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests. Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.