Accounts Payable Team Leader
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Accounts Payable Team Leader with significant experience in high-volume, multi-currency Accounts Payable, ideally in a retail environment. Reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, you will oversee the Accounts Payable - Stock Team, ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations, compliance with SLAs, and delivery of accurate financial data. You will lead a high-performing team to process high-volume, multi-currency transactions, manage queries, and maintain robust financial controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Supervise and develop a small team, including managing workload, conducting regular 1-2-1s, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, and individual performance reviews.
- Invoice Processing: Ensure accurate and timely processing of high-volume, multi-currency invoices, monitoring compliance with SLAs.
- International Vendor Management: Proactively manage relationships with international vendors, ensuring accurate payments, query resolution, and compliance with customs and tax processes.
- Query Resolution: Oversee the team’s management of payment and account queries, taking ownership of complex or escalated issues.
- Payment Accuracy & Controls: Deliver weekly multi-currency payment runs, oversee non-standard payments, and monitor inter-account transfers. Ensure compliance with approval matrices and maintain high accuracy levels.
- Compliance & Reporting: Provide periodic reporting packs for leadership, including aged creditors, duplicates, statement logs, and vendor master data changes. Support audits by providing documentation and responding to queries.
- Risk Management: Minimise financial risks by reviewing aged creditor reports, supplier statement reconciliations, and monitoring vendor master data changes.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and compliance, supporting broader transformation initiatives.
- Collaboration: Work closely with the wider Accounts Payable and Finance teams, providing support and cover as needed
Skills and Experience:
- Extensive knowledge of the invoicing process for shipments from Bangladesh, China and other Asian countries is essential.
- Expert in data manipulation using excel.
- Ability to navigate Freight Forwarders portals.
- Prior high volume multi-currency Accounts Payable experience
- Prior experience overseeing a team
- Excellent attention to detail, performing all work with high levels of accuracy
- Good spoken and written communication skills
- Comfortable managing multiple competing priorities and delivering to deadline
- Open, friendly person who is proactive, keen to develop and enjoys working as part of a team
- Open, friendly person who is proactive
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.
The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.
Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.
As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.
Welcome to our journey.