Transactional Finance Team Leader
Location: Halifax / Hybrid
Department: Finance
Contract type: Permanent / Full-time
About the role
We're looking for a Transactional Finance Team Leader to join our Finance team and play a key role in successfully leading and developing a team of finance assistants and senior finance assistant responsible for the organisation's purchase ledger processes, encompassing our company values and driving a continuous improvement culture.
Promote working to team KPIs to ensure accuracy and adherence to the organisation's policies, controls and SLAs, whilst building and maintaining excellent working relationships with both internal and external key stakeholders.
Activate Group is a growing UK business with 1,000+ team members nationwide. This is an exciting opportunity to build a long-term career with a company that values its people and offers genuine development and progression opportunities.
Key responsibilities
•Ownership and reconciliation of team invoice processing and import activities.
•Ownership of team invoice and case management for additional fees and charges.
•Ownership of sales finance system banking upload.
•Ownership of the reviewing and resolving jobs in the below workflow steps:
* Repairs complete – Invoice Requested
* Complete Awaiting additional invoices
* Invoicing rejected
•Ensure jobs in ‘Invoice Review and Close' process are reviewed and actioned within a 48 hour SLA.
•Build relationships with repairers in order to resolve any invoicing queries that may arise.
•Ensure working paper items raised by the Management Accountants are cleared within the month of being raised.
•Weekly reporting to management containing: Invoicing SLA, Email SLA, Workflow step progress.
•Management of team processes that record and resolve non-compliant invoices.
•Carrying out monthly team 1-2-1's documented in the HR system and providing areas of focus.
•Providing Team development and training.
•Ensuring the team manage Internal and external query resolution.
•Ensure all process are documented.
•Work with the internal/external teams to create process efficiencies.
Skills and experience
•People leadership experience
•Purchase Ledger knowledge
•High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
•Ability to work under pressure
•Advanced Excel skills
•Ability to manage time and prioritise
•Good verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
We believe in rewarding our people for the great work they do. When you join Activate Group, you can expect:
•33 days holiday, including bank holidays
•Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of everyday healthcare such as dental and optical check-ups
•Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay
•Life assurance at three times your basic salary
•Free breakfasts and fresh fruit
•A birthday surprise for everyone
What you can expect from us
At Activate Group, we want everyone to have the tools and support they need to do their best work. We're an innovative business that continuously reviews and improves our systems, processes and ways of working, making sure they support our teams to do their jobs effectively.
Every role at Activate Group is aligned to our wider business vision and purpose – making someone's bad day better. You'll understand how your role contributes to the bigger picture and how your work helps deliver excellent outcomes for customer and partners.
We believe work should be enjoyable. We make time to celebrate success, recognise achievements and bring people together at team events and company-wide celebrations. We'll also support your ongoing development through regular feedback and career planning.
Whether you're based in one of our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough or Huddersfield, working at an Activate Accident Repair (AAR) site, or working from home, you'll be part of a supportive culture where people are encouraged to succeed.
A bit about us
Activate Group is a fast-growing business approaching 1,000 team members nationwide.
We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in road incidents through our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough and Huddersfield.
We manage every step of the repair journey - repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair (AAR) body shops, as well as through a UK-wide network of trusted independent repair partners.
We also work with the UK's largest vehicle manufacturers, supporting their approved repair programmes, and deliver innovative technology solutions to fleets, vehicle repair centres and dealerships.
Our purpose & values
Our purpose underpins everything we do: Make someone's bad day better
Our values define how we work with our team members, customers and suppliers:
•Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
•Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
•Win together – Be a team player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.