Temporary Accounts & Purchasing Team Leader 

Reference no: Surrey BL TCL357792   

Pay rate £17.78 per hour PAYE   

This opening assignment is for 14 months 

Management Vetting (MV) 

Hybrid working 

To lead a collaborated Finance Operations team to ensure that an effective, timely, accurate professional service is provided to the workforce, suppliers and stakeholders 

Key responsibilities: 

• To ensure that the SBS Finance team delivers a customer centric service to colleagues, vendors, customers and stakeholders by delivering business requirements (activities, tasks) adhering to policy, practices, KPI’s and SLAs.  
• To understand and be responsible for the management of demand into the team. For example queries relating to policy, procedures and processes. Liaising with the corporate and joint finance function and wider business colleagues as necessary and appropriate. Horizon scanning and adapting the service provision to meet competing demands.  
• To provide leadership to their direct reports and build a highly capable team through the attraction, training and development of the necessary skilled professionals to meet the business need. Ensuring that they meet regularly with their direct reports through the use of ‘Focus meetings’. To support the recruitment and development of team members, effectively manage their performance against defined objectives and ensure that they are adequately trained.  
• To provide functional expertise to team members, manage their workload, act as first point of escalation ensuring that issues are effectively resolved.  
• To work closely across different functions within the SBS within 'one team' identifying continuous improvement coordinating service needs and resilience when needed and ensuring that processes are aligned across the two forces where possible.  
• To manage and troubleshoot areas of reduced team performance and attendance utilising the policies, systems and processes available.  To identify and action effective plans to achieve appropriate outcomes.  
• To be a proactive member of the SBS Management Team and extended People Services/Finance management teams working collaboratively with colleagues across the function so that services are joined up and that competing demands are understood and expectations managed.  
• To ensure data integrity in systems and ensure appropriate and relevant audit controls are in place, escalated where required. Ensuring that the team perform their work in accordance with established, KPIs, SLAs, guidelines and procedures.  
• To manage the development needs and training requirements of the team to achieve Omni competence.  
• To effectively collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify and implement improvements to processes and KPI's and ensure that KPI's and service metrics are produced in a timely manner 

“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria: 

• AAT or ACCA/CIMA/ACA Part Qual Institute of Learning Management Level 5 or equivalent 
• Experience of managing people within a Shared Service Organisation and an ability to motivate and inspire team members  
• Significant experience and a detailed understanding of the end to end processes within accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing and exchequer.  
•  Experience of identifying and implementing process improvements and demonstrable problem solving skills.  
• Experience of business change programmes and the ability to lead a team through transformation and innovation. 
• Experience of working within a complex ERP environment (SAP, Oracle etc) 
• Effective organisational and prioritisation skills to manage the diverse workload within the team  
• Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and enhance  existing processes in order to optimise the teams operational effectiveness 
• Ability to act as an ambassador for SBS Finance within the wider Force organisation 
• Effective communicator able to deal with challenging issues presented by vendors, customers and stakeholders and an ability to influence change 

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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.