Finance Team Lead

JWR Employment Specialists are working with one of Europe s leading Technology distributors to recruit a Finance Team Leader to join a growing and diverse finance team.

• Strong leadership, effective feedback and performance management of the team.
  
• Engaging and motivating the team; driving them to high performance.
  
• The team consistently meet or exceed service/delivery of expectation towards internal and external partners.
  
• Good practices are followed and looking at process improvements across the day to day banking function.
  

Role Responsibilities

Daily Admin Duties:

• Oversee the team ensuring daily banking tasks (including cash and payment postings) are complete.
  
• Oversee and assist in the completion of monthly bank reconciliations as per reporting timelines.
  
• Management of invoice discount facility and preparation of monthly MERs.
  
• Monitor ledgers to ensure accounts are cleared down in timely manner.
  
• Review intercompany postings to ensure accurately reflected in SAP.
  

Leadership:

• Regular 121s with team members as well as regular team meetings.
  
• Setting quarterly SMART Objectives, coaching the team for performance to achieve them.
  
• Developing the team via PDP discussions, effective feedback, identifying skill gaps and development opportunities. Regular assessment of team s skill level within the careers structure.
  
• Being an escalation point for decision support, complex queries, managing more difficult external relationships.
  
• Training of team in all areas. Identifying strengths and weaknesses in the team, allocating tasks according to strengths and providing training in areas of weakness.
  
• Development of new processes and process improvements to ensure higher accuracy and speed.
  
• Testing new processes for errors or inconsistencies.
  
• Involvement in development project work, e.g. New systems and business improvement projects. Working on ways to implement them within the team.
  
• Ensuring all policies and procedures are followed and well documented across the team.
  
• Complete ad hoc training with team members when required.
  
• Audit work coordinate the tasks and ensure they are completed in a timely manner.
  
• Year end ensure all year end postings are complete and all accounts are reconciled for year end.
  

General Duties

• Provide cover for your counterparts in the team during periods of absence or holidays
  
• Carry out other tasks or duties as required by senior management in line with the business achieving its objectives.
  

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role or finance environment
  
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
  
• Multi-currency experience an advantage
  
• SAP accounting software experience would be an advantage
  
• Strong attention to detail
  
• Enjoy leading teams
• Has high level of interpersonal and effective communication skills to build effective and successful relationships
  
  

Benefits