Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Lead- Implementation and Strategy in Preston

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What your role will be

To support the Head of Financial Transactions in driving improvements in current processes and procedures, as well as delivering new system implementations. Additionally, providing support to deliver a comprehensive Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Service across all group companies, reporting and providing advice and financial direction on all Income and payment matters.

Your background

You will have a proven track record of leading a high performing team and will be able to demonstrate how you effectively manage multiple priorities.  Due to the nature of the role you will consider yourself someone that is strong working with different systems and you will have a sound understanding of finance/accounting procedures, preferably studying towards a recognised accounting qualification, or already qualified.

You will have strong communication skills and be able to evidence what tools you employ to ensure that you have good working relationships with other teams and individuals that you engage with.

For this role there will be a requirement to come into the office two days per week and the rest is working from home.

Please note for this role the earliest start date would be the 2^nd of January 2024

Benefits  

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.   

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:   

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly  
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7% 
• Excellent holiday package – 35 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave 
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year 
• A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2% 
• Training and development 
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

For remote roles:  

This role will be either agile or based from one of our offices dependent upon your home location, whilst there is flexibility of working from home alongside office based working to facilitate collaboration with the wider team. This will be discussed at the interview stage.  Please note there will be some requirement to travel for nationwide meetings.   

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.

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