Head of Transactional Finance

Robert Half are working for a world class institution to recruit for Head of Transactional Finance in Bedfordshire

Salary between £40-45k.

Generous benefits are:

• Life Cover
• Access to a wide range of discounts
• Recognition awards
• Healthcare cashback plans
• Generous holiday benefits
• Contributory pension schemes
• Attractive family friendly policies; maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, flexible working.
• Access to a variety of employee assistance support services.

Job Description

• Managing both the Accounts Receivable and Payable functions. (5 Direct reports).
• Monitoring, maintaining and improvement of departmental KPIs
• To build and forecast weekly, the next 13 weeks receipts and payments.
• Review of monthly reconciliations.
• Organization of the team's resources over busy periods.
• Review of payment runs, and processing.
• Reviewing and improving departmental processes
• Lead weekly meetings with the teams, to review and uphold high standards.
• Providing reports to the business, as to their overdue customer debt, and existing issues with payments.
• Ensuring and planning the rotation of knowledge and experience through-out the team.
• Being a point of escalation for issues.
• Prepare and analyse periodic AP balances and vendor spend reports.
• Supporting key change initiatives and drive through continuous improvement.
• Providing other ad-hoc reporting to line managers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Previous transactional experience, and ready to step up and manage a team/function.
• Examples of continuous improvements.

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