Accounts Payable Team Lead

Our Finance Team is looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Team Lead to join the team. 

Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting the smooth financial operations of the business, ensuring accurate and timely invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, and expense management. The team works closely with colleagues and suppliers to deliver an excellent customer experience, maintain financial accuracy and controls, resolve queries efficiently, and continuously improve processes to drive efficiency and service excellence.

What you will be doing

• Leading a team of AP Analysts, monitoring workloads and assigning daily and weekly tasks as appropriate.
  
• Ensuring the team adheres to daily and weekly deadlines, including invoice processing, payment runs, bank reconciliations, and shared mailbox management.
• Conducting 1:1 meetings focused on performance, quarterly reviews, and individual growth.
  
• Leading team calls and meetings, driving operational execution and team performance, and supporting the team’s day-to-day operational activities.
  
• Acting as the point of contact for escalations from the wider Finance team and the business.
  
• Entering supplier invoices into the accounting system, ensuring accurate coding and obtaining the appropriate authorisation.
  
• Performing three-way checks on associate invoices and preparing self-bill invoices for umbrella companies.
  
• Processing payments through the accounting system and banking portals.
  
• Supporting month-end processes and reconciliations.
  
• Managing the Payables mailbox, including responding to queries and following up on approvals.
  
• Providing hands-on cover and support for the team, stepping in to manage workload as needed.
  
• Taking a proactive approach to identifying and improving processes.
  

Your skills and experience

• At least 3–4 years’ experience working within an Accounts Payable function.
  
• A minimum of 2 years’ line management experience.
  
• Keen to collaborate with others, recognising that the best results come from bringing together different ideas, experiences, and expertise.
  
• Strong problem-solving mindset, able to understand how issues and challenges have arisen while remaining focused on finding effective solutions.
  
• Knowledge of time and expense systems and debt collection.
  
• Experience using MS Excel, MS Office, and accounting software. Experience with Capture and Concur Expenses would be an advantage. Experience using ERP systems, with Microsoft D365 preferred.
  
• Strong customer service mindset with excellent attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of change.
  

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.