• The Role & Key Responsibilities

  • Job title: Purchase Ledger Team Lead - Admin & Expenses

    Location: Peterborough (hybrid - 3 days in office Tues-Thu)

    Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm

    Package includes: Salary from £33,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and acknowledge your contributions, including discretionary performance related bonus, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

    Are you an experienced finance professional committed to accuracy and organisation, and leading teams? Do you thrive in high-volume environments where attention to detail and compliance are key?

    Our Central Finance team are looking for an experienced Purchase Ledger Team Lead to oversee our Admin and Expenses team. In this role, you’ll ensure the timely and accurate processing of payments, expenses, reconciliations, and vendor data, while driving continuous improvements and supporting our business with first-class financial operations.

     

    What You’ll Be Doing

    • Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Administrators, ensuring workloads are effectively allocated and priorities managed.
    • Overseeing accurate and timely processing of expenses, payments, reconciliations, and vendor maintenance across multiple divisions.
    • Monitoring team mailboxes and ensuring responses are delivered within agreed SLAs.
    • Supporting month-end close activities, including journals, reconciliations, and reporting.
    • Ensuring compliance with financial controls, VAT requirements, and company policies.
    • Facilitating cross-training and knowledge sharing within the team to maintain professionalism and cover.
    • Identifying, escalating, and resolving queries in collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers.
    • Building a culture of continuous improvement by reviewing processes, reducing errors, and embedding smarter ways of working.


    What You’ll Bring

    • Extensive experience managing or supervising a finance or purchase ledger team in a busy setting.
    • Proficient understanding of purchase ledger processes, financial controls, and reconciliations.
    • Experience with finance systems such as Basware, Concur, and SharePoint (desirable).
    • Adept organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and deliver to tight deadlines.
    • A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, with proficient problem-solving skills.
    • Clear and skilled communication skills, able to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
    • An engaging and supportive leadership style, with a focus on developing others.
    • A continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify efficiencies and implement change.
     
    Location

    Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.

Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Taylor Waldon via [email protected].

Supporting your application

We work with a number of ​external partners to ensure ​that our application process ​is as comfortable as ​possible, regardless of your ​circumstances or ​background.

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Purchase Ledger Team Lead - Admin & Expenses

  • All Locations
    Peterborough
  • Job Function
    Finance
  • Type
    Permanent
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