All Locations
Peterborough
Job Function
Finance
Type
Permanent
Closing Date:
20 Sep 2024

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Purchase Ledger Admin & Expenses Team Leader

Location: Peterborough / Hybrid (office 3 days per week minimum)


Are you a finance professional eager to guide a vibrant team to new achievements? Do you excel in managing purchase ledger and expense processes with precision? Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a fast-paced, growth-oriented company?

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Purchase Ledger & Expenses Team Leader to join our professional finance team. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a solid background in purchase ledger management and expense control to take on a leadership role and make a significant impact on our financial operations.


What you will be doing:

  • Oversee the day-to-day operations of the purchase ledger and expenses team, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
  • Management of own ledger, processing of supplier invoices, expense claims, and payment runs.
  • Maintain positive relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders, addressing queries and resolving issues promptly.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, as well as relevant legislation.
  • Track key performance indicators and introduce improvements as needed.
  • Provide training, support, and mentorship to team members.
  • Management of the DocuSign and inbox for Vendor maintenance ensure they are completed within the SLAs.
  • Management of the Expenses system (Concur).
 

What you will bring:

  • Proven experience in a similar role within a finance department, overseeing a team.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of purchase ledger and expense management processes.
  • Effective leadership and team management skills.
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Experience of working within a hard-working and busy environment
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work in a time-sensitive setting and meet tight deadlines.
  • A proactive and problem-solving mindset.
  • Strong understanding of financial controls
  • System knowledge such as Basware, Concur and Sharepoint


Our Central Finance Admin and Expenses team audit a large volume of employee expenses each day, conducts payments run, statements reconciliation, general ledger journal admin, purchase ledger/banking transactions admin and vendor data maintenance for which the Team Leader is responsible for the timely and accurate processing of all transactions by the team.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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