Accounts Payable Team Leader

Posting date:	17 April 2024
Salary:	£32,188 per year
Additional salary information:	Leeds: £32,188 London: £36,244
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 May 2024
Location:	Leeds
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	349592/1

Summary

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a Higher Executive Officer role within the Accounts Payable team. We use Microsoft Dynamics 365 to process and pay supplier invoices and credit notes ( approximately 2,000 invoices a month), various grants and funding, and foreign currency payments.

We are currently working three days per week in the office. You will be provided with a laptop, and the system and processes are working well remotely. We are currently a team of approximately 11 staff who manage in small teams.

You will be required to manage a small team of mixed-grade staff (A0- EO) delivering account payable services, produce regular accounts payable reports, analyse KPI data, and produce internal and external reports as appropriate.

This role will also need to provide support and backup to the payments team, primarily on BACS and Refunds, and work with the Buying Coordinator and Bank Reconciliation Team.

• To provide support to the AP Senior Team Leader ensuring invoices are paid in line with the department’s policies and prompt payment KPI.
• To support the team to deal with queries and issues requiring higher level skills - bookkeeping skills.
• To train staff responsible for processing invoices on how to use D365 effectively for timely and accurate payment of invoices.
• To support management to produce internal KPIs for management review and action plans.
• To approve non standard payments through BACs, CHAPs and Foreign Currencies International Payments are completed daily and accounted for in D365 correctly.
• To support processing SRED, Provider Finance and other grants payment working in liaison with the AP Senior Team Leader.
• To provide cover for SEO and EO in all aspects of account payable invoice processing and prompt payment to suppliers.
• To attend meetings and manage relationships with some of our core PSR contractors ensuring their invoices are processed accurately and on time.
• To ensure supplier statements are reconciled to our D365 accounts and take corrective actions as appropriate to resolve discrepancies.

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