Accounts Payable & Receivables Manager

Accounts Payable & Receivable Manager

Location: Leicester

Salary: 40,000 45,000 DOE

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

A well-established and successful business is looking to recruit an experienced Accounts Payable & Receivable Manager to join its finance team based in Leicester.Reporting directly to the Managing Director and managing an Accounts Payable Clerk, this is a varied, hands-on position with responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day transactional finance function. Joining during an exciting period of growth, you will play a key role in strengthening processes, improving controls and bringing stability across accounts payable, receivables, payroll and wider finance operations.The role will suit a resilient and experienced transactional finance professional who is comfortable remaining hands-on whilst taking ownership of processes and supporting the wider business.

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing the day-to-day accounts payable and accounts receivable functions
• Ensuring supplier invoices, payments and customer receipts are processed accurately and on time
• Managing supplier and customer queries through to resolution
• Reviewing supplier statement reconciliations and maintaining clean and accurate ledgers
• Reviewing supplier BACS reports and ensuring payments are accurately prepared for approval
• Reviewing aged creditor and debtor reports, investigating balances and providing appropriate commentary
• Managing credit control activity and ensuring aged debt is proactively followed up
• Carrying out appropriate supplier and customer checks, including new customer credit checks
• Ensuring revenue is billed accurately within the correct accounting period
• Overseeing employee expenses, ensuring claims comply with company policy and VAT requirements
• Coordinating payroll information including starters, leavers, overtime, holidays, employee changes and benefits
• Reviewing externally prepared payroll reports for accuracy and supporting employees with payroll queries
• Ensuring HMRC payroll liabilities are paid within required deadlines
• Supporting stock control processes including shop sales, stock transactions, reconciliations and stock takes
• Supporting the business through an ERP migration, including user testing
• Reviewing existing finance and business processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and data accuracy
• Managing and developing an Accounts Payable Clerk
• Working closely with the wider group finance function on queries and project work

You will ideally have

• Previous experience managing accounts payable and accounts receivable functions
• Strong hands-on transactional finance experience
• Experience of payroll and employee expenses
• Previous line management experience
• A good working knowledge of VAT
• Strong Excel and Microsoft 365 skills
• Excellent attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy and financial controls
• Strong communication and business partnering skills
• The ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• A resilient, proactive and solutions-focused approach
• Previous experience within the construction sector would be advantageous, as would knowledge of Business Central or Xero, although these are not essential.

What's on Offer

• Salary of 40, 000 45, 000 DOE
• Permanent, full-time position
• Opportunity to join an established and growing organisation
• Broad, hands-on role with ownership of transactional finance
• Direct exposure to senior management
• Opportunity to support a significant ERP migration
• Line management responsibility
• Further company benefits