Purchase Ledger Team Leader in Westbury

Location: Westbury, Wiltshire

Salary: Competitive, DOE

Hours: 40 hrs per week, Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 17:30

Your role

Are you a natural leader with a passion for teamwork and making a difference? Rygor Group are looking for a Purchase Ledger Team Leader to guide and inspire their dedicated Purchase Ledger Team. In this role, you’ll bring flexibility, initiative, strength and a collaborative spirit to the table, supporting colleagues, delighting customers, and partnering with management and directors to achieve shared goals. If you take pride in helping others succeed and thrive on building a positive, high-performing team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

The Job

As a Purchase Ledger Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping a high-performing team while keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes. Your days will be varied, rewarding, and filled with opportunities to make a real impact by implementing ideas and initiatives to help ensure efficiency. Step up as a trusted deputy – support the Finance Manager by taking the lead on all purchase ledger matters whenever required.

• A strong communicator and comfortable talking with suppliers.
• Lead and support the team – oversee daily operations of the purchase ledger team, solve escalated issues, and make sure everything runs like clockwork.
• Keep the business on track – ensure deadlines are met, and month-end close runs seamlessly across all ledgers.
• Inspire and motivate – create a positive, efficient, and quality-driven working culture where the team feels supported and empowered, especially during busy periods.
• A problem solver - you are a solutions-driven individual.
• Invest in people – monitor skills, identify training needs, and provide ongoing coaching to help every team member grow and succeed.
• Guide and develop talent – manage onboarding and training for new hires, while supporting regular 1:1s, probation reviews, and performance appraisals.
• Own the numbers – deliver accurate and insightful reporting for the Finance Manager, including aged creditors, reconciliations, duplicate invoice checks, and verification analysis.
• Protect accuracy and quality – review work to ensure accuracy, resolve issues, and put improvements in place where needed.
• Collaborate on key accounts and ensure regular, accurate reporting – handle aged creditor analysis, unallocated reporting, verification analysis, duplicate invoicing assessment and rectification, reporting and monitoring efficient and accurate supplier statement reconciliations, resolving held invoices on the ledgers, reconciliations and maintenance of key accounts, company payments and administration of invoices for all businesses within the group.
• Adapt and support – step in with ad-hoc duties to keep the Finance function moving forward.

About you

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Experience working in a Group setting, so you are used to working across multiple businesses.
• A strong, resilient, experienced leader who inspires those around them and understands the commercial nature of their role.
• Excellent communication, motivational and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in Excel.
• Ability to plan, organise, delegate, use initiative, provide leadership to staff and report to management.
• Self-confident, assertive, and able to adapt.
• Professional approach and customer service orientation.

Benefits for you

• A day off for your Birthday.
• 23 days of annual leave per year plus Bank Holidays (increase with long service).
• Four times death in service benefit.
• Branded uniform and boot allowance.
• Working for an official Great Place to Work™️ and UK Best Workplace for three years running!
• Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing.
• Working for a UK Best Workplace for Development.
• Working with their award-winning team – they have been named Service Provider of the Year at the WhatVan? Awards and winners of the Employer of the Year category at the Motor Trader CV Industry awards.
• Recipients of the Silver Award under the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Auto-enrolment pension.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies.
• Access to their wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
• Mental Health First Aiders.
• Reward and recognition programmes, including their annual Rygor Group Awards.
• Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
• Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training hub.
• Long service recognition.

Our Process

When applying, please include a full current CV with your current salary outlined and notice period. Once this has been reviewed, we will be in touch to advise if your application will be progressed through to the next stage.

The Riverside Resourcing & Consultancy recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Managing your data

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