Accounts Payable Stock Team Leader

Wickes are a digitally led, service enabled organisation with a project in every home.

We are delighted to be recruiting for an Accounts Payable Stock Team Leader to join our Finance team at Wickes. If you have leadership experience within a finance function, you are someone who provides exceptional support to people and thrives on delivering a great service, we would like to talk to you. Ideally, you will have experience managing small teams, driving, and supporting change, and experience of working within a busy high-volume, transactional finance retail team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach and mentor a team of 5/6 staff dealing with stock invoices. 

• Ensure all stock invoices are processed correctly and within payment terms

• Identify training and development needs for the team, build a plan to ensure these needs are met

• Ensure team members are cross trained on all areas of Accounts payable.

• Develop & manage strong relationships with key stakeholders of our business.

• Responsible for the aged creditors, to ensure no monthly/year-end issues

• Ensure queries are resolved quickly for all internal and external stakeholders

• Assist with improving the current KPIs and develop new KPIs for the business

• Review current controls and implement improvements

• Responsible for key supplier accounts, building relationships and managing queries efficiently.

• Provide Cashflow forecasting to the Accounts Payable Manager

• Ensure compliance with supplier set ups on the system, liaising with relevant teams as required

• Rectify any miss postings in a timely manner and ensure that improved processes are adopted to avoid miss postings in the future

• Provide support to the finance function in terms of analytics and ad hoc requests

• Generate Bacs runs and overseas payments as required

• Assist with month end close, recoding, preparing accrual journal and ensuring all prepayments have been allocated.

• Support the Accounts Payable Manager and Head of Financial Transactions

What are we looking for from you?

• Minimum of two years of leadership experience, ideally in a retail environment.

• For you to be a natural leader, someone who uses a coaching approach to get the best out of people

• To be self-motivated, and a self-starter, but also able to build relationships and work as part of a team

• Must be comfortable with high volumes of transactions and be able to manage different workstreams and prioritise workload

• To have strong attention to detail and a high level of computer accuracy

• A confident communicator; written and verbal

• A positive can-do attitude, especially when faced with challenges and time constraints

What can we offer you?

Wickes’ culture is a best kept secret; it’s a collaborative, down to earth, fun and inclusive environment where people feel part of a winning team.