Accounts Payable Team Leader

About the Role

Are you all about Accounts Payable, all the time? Do you want to lead a small but mighty team? We're supporting an incredible, global FMCG brand to find their next AP Team Lead and it could be you!

The successful candidate will lead a team of 2, supporting day to day team activities.

• Provide day-to-day guidance and technical support to the Accounts Payable team
• Lead onboarding and ongoing training; maintain and improve AP process documentation
• Act as a key escalation point, working closely with the AP Supervisor to resolve issues
• Accurately post high-volume invoices across multiple legal entities
• Support invoice processing and provide cover for the wider AP team as required
• Manage AP inboxes, ensuring timely responses and appropriate escalation
• Oversee and/or process freight and logistics invoices in SAP, reconciling to stock and movement reports
• Complete supplier reconciliations and proactively chase queries, approvals, and missing invoices
• Review outstanding queries with the AP Supervisor
• Own specific AP processes (e.g. POS, asset-related invoices) across entities
• Reconcile and clear direct debits as part of bank reconciliations
• Support AP process improvements, systems enhancements, and project work
• Ensure VAT compliance across all entities
• Assist with weekly payment runs and approvals
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations at month-end
• Deliver ad-hoc reporting as required

• Proven Accounts Payable experience, ideally in a Team Lead or senior/step-up role
• Strong people skills with the ability to coach, guide, and develop others
• Proven experience with SAP
• Experience in high-volume invoice processing with excellent attention to detail
• Able to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Exposure to multi-currency transactions
• Strong Excel skills and confidence using finance systems and Outlook
• Sound understanding of accounting transactions and controls
• Proactive, improvement-focused mindset

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven and organised AP Team lead to join a forward-thinking, progressive business who put people at the heart of their business.

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The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. By applying for this role, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website.

Please note that The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.