Finance and Administration Team Leader
Skelmersdale
c.£31,500 depending on experience plus annual bonus
Great hours Monday to Friday, no evenings or weekend working
Full time permanent position
Finance Team Leaders! Come and build a successful career with us!
We’re looking for an experienced Finance Team Leader to come and be part of our success. If you’re keen on a career in an established, friendly, and fast-growing business, this is the role for you. We are Direct365, a market leading company providing essential workplace products and services for small businesses, and we want to speak with you. Consider these questions.
- Do you enjoy working in Finance roles and have Team Leader experience?
- Do you also have experience in a contact centre or admin setting?
- Are you looking for a rewarding career in a secure company?
- Are you friendly, polite, reliable, and organised?
- Do you live near Skelmersdale (WN8 9RD)?
If you answered ‘Yes’, we want to hear from you! In this role, you can directly influence business success and really make a difference. You’ll guide, motivate, and develop our Finance Team and Admin Team to deliver a smooth efficient service. Your teams will cover Purchase Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Stock Control, Billing, Order Processing and Queries. Our team is friendly and supportive, and you can build a career here in a role you’ll enjoy.
Your finance experience will be truly valued here. You’ll develop existing connections across departments and with suppliers, ensuring the Sales to Cash process is slick and efficient. A keen eye for detail and great communication skills are key when looking after our accounts process, to deliver accurate financial accounting records for the business. This is a chance to make a difference in a role where you will be integral to our success.
Your role as Finance and Administration Team Leader at Direct365:
- Ensuring professional and accurate reporting processes to the Finance and Infrastructure Manager and stakeholders relating to periodic and yearly accounts.
- Ensuring purchase ledger invoices are processed, queried and reconciled accurately in a timely fashion, and overseeing period end reporting.
- Forward planning workloads and team deadlines, and prioritising to ensure monthly and periodic deadlines are achieved.
- Develop current and new processes to safeguard the controls of key financial data and cost management of the business.
- Accurately processing invoices, payments, Direct Debit and Cash Allocation, orders, account changes and related customer care queries.
- Producing invoices, contracts, service agreements, raising credits and addressing subcontractor feedback.
- Coach, mentor, support, motivate and develop your team to help them achieve personal and team goals and deliver customer excellence.
- Evaluating performance and processes using key metrics, fostering an environment of continuous improvement.
- Delivering on business targets, working with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure the customer is at the heart of everything we do.
- Creating a positive working environment through meaningful 1-2-1’s, team meetings and coaching sessions. Identifying needs to help people achieve their full potential.
- Communicate the business strategy, along with new information, products and services, and setting clear expectations on the behaviours we expect of team members.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Finance role with Supervisor experience
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, both written and verbal
- Good leadership and management skills, with a positive attitude at all times
- A keen attention to detail, strong level of accuracy and excellent numeracy skills
- A committed, proactive approach, with the drive to achieve targets and deadlines
- A positive mindset, able to prioritise, multitask and work well within a team
- Experience with Excel, BACS, the Direct Debit Scheme and SAGE 200
- Finance qualifications (in part or full) – AAT, CIMA, ACCA, Finance Degree, etc
- The admin team take customer calls, so contact centre experience is beneficial.
In return for your commitment and expertise in this role, you will get:
- A good salary of c.£31,500 depending on experience in a secure, successful company, plus an annual bonus
- No weekend or evening working – great hours Monday to Friday (37.5 hours a week)
- Amazing employee discounts with major supermarkets and retailers with phsPerks.com
- Training available to expand your skills. We offer accredited ILM training through external and in-house training
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays (31 days in total), plus a Buy / Sell holiday scheme
- Free Parking onsite so no parking costs
- Other benefits such as improved parental leave, a 24-hour wellbeing helpline, cycle to work scheme, pension scheme, life assurance and more…
Does this sound like the career for you? If so, we’re very keen to meet you – Apply now.
About us
At Direct365, our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of essential workplace products and services for small businesses. We value helpfulness, reliability and innovation within our employee base, and believe in giving everyone the freedom to do what they do best. Our aim is to combine our buying power with friendly expert advice for everyone’s peace of mind that the job’s well done. Direct365 is part of the wider phs Group.
At Direct365, we pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and ensuring we have an inclusive environment for all our staff. We remain committed to ensuring our teams can bring their true selves to work without risk or fear of discrimination.