Finance Team Leader

Finance Team Leader

Up to £35,000 per annum+ benefits

Remote with at least one day a week in Stourbridge Office West Midlands

37.5 hours per a week

Closing date for applications: 5th January 2025

Shortlisting: 6th January 2025

Interviews: 16th/ 17th January 2025

About the Role

Camphill Village Trust are excited to be recruiting for a new Finance Team Leader. Managing a small team, as Finance Team Leader you will play a crucial role in the daily management of the sales ledger, purchase and treasury functions. You will also get to work closely with our stakeholders at all levels.

Finding the right person with right experience is as important to us as your qualifications. The ideal candidate will possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong organisational abilities, and possess a proactive “can do” nature.

If you are looking for a new challenge this role is a key development opportunity for an experienced finance professional to help shape the future of our transaction services within the Trust. You will help influence processes, and drive initiatives to ensure the team delivers a first-class finance service.

Location & Travel Home based

The role is mainly remote (home-based); however you will be expected to travel to the Central Finance Office in Stourbridge to meet with your team each week and other relevant locations on occasion.

Main responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Oversee the group purchase and sales ledger invoicing, bank receipts, credits and refunds.
• Support and be involved the development of our finance systems.
• Take responsibility for key suppliers and customer accounts ensuring invoices are raised and accounts are reconciled regularly.
• Responsible for processing of regular payment runs.
• Ensure non-purchase ledger payments are posted and coded correctly.
• Oversee sales ledger journals/income accruals and month end reconciliations.
• Daily/weekly posting of treasury transactions daily and ensure bank reconciliations are undertaken regularly.
• Review and manage the allocation processes for both sales and purchase ledger ensuring payments and receipts have been allocated correctly and action and resolve account discrepancies.
• Review and manage the credit control process.
• Manage debtors with support from the Finance Business Partners as required.
• Assist and provide support in the audit process.
• Develop and report on a suite of team KPIs which you will monitor regularly and support the team to ensure they are met.
• Work with colleagues across the finance team to standardise processes and keep the finance manual up to date.
• Support the Financial Controller in training internal stakeholders on our finance systems and processes.
• Enforcing financial controls in accordance with our scheme of delegation.
• Provide excellent customer service, manage, and maintain good relationships and strong links with the internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the Financial Controller as required
• Maintain effective financial controls within the sales and purchasing functions.
• Manage, motivate and provide support to the finance assistants including holding daily/weekly catch -ups and 121 supervision meetings, and annual appraisals and staff development.
• Manage, motivate, train and develop finance assistants.
• Ensure staff and volunteers have the information and skills to deliver a quality service
• providing support with other ad hoc financial tasks as required.

Who we’re looking for:

Qualifications required:

• AAT qualified, working towards the qualification or qualified by experience (at least 3 years in a similar role or managing a finance function)

Knowledge & Experience required:

• Experience in day to day running of a finance office.
• Experience in accounts processing and reconciliations to TB level.
• Experience of manging other staff, coaching & mentoring.
• Good organisation skills & methodical with good time management skills, used to delivering to tight timetables.
• Knowledge & understanding of internal controls & core accounting systems and processes.
• Intermediate level in Excel spreadsheet skills.
• Able to evidence effective use of own judgement, & ability to work proactively while unsupervised.
• Able to build good working relationships at all levels within the charity.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of accounting systems in a multi company/cost centre environment.
• Exposure to budget preparation & monitoring.
• Experience of preparation of
• Management accounts and annual accounts.