Finance Transactions Lead - Accounts Payable

Finance Transactions Lead - Accounts Payable
This role will provide significant leadership to the Accounts Payable, Fundraising, and Treasury Teams, ensuring transactions are dealt with in an efficient, correct, and timely manner. The Operations team are integral to the smooth and efficient running of the organisation ensuring that St John people, customers and suppliers are fully supported in all their transactional requirements. This role is responsible for technical support and enquiry resolution, dealing with complex and escalated queries from St John people and suppliers, and in support of operational teams across St John.FINANCE TRANSACTIONS LEAD (FIXED TERM CONTRACT – MATERNITY COVER)St John are looking for a dynamic and experienced Finance Transactions Lead to come and be part of our in-house Shared Services Team.The role will be based at our shared services centre in Sheffield where you will have on-site parking and can work in a hybrid model once your training has been completed.The Shared Services Centre (SSC) provides a wide range of administrative services supporting the day-to-day activities of St John, including Finance, People, Property, Events and Fleet. The role of the SSC is fundamental to the success of St John.This role will provide significant leadership to the Accounts Payable, Fundraising, and Treasury Teams, ensuring transactions are dealt with in an efficient, correct, and timely manner. The Operations team are integral to the smooth and efficient running of the organisation ensuring that St John people, customers and suppliers are fully supported in all their transactional requirements. This role is responsible for technical support and enquiry resolution, dealing with complex and escalated queries from St John people and suppliers, and in support of operational teams across St John.You will be joining St John at an exciting time in our transformation as we look to embrace new technology over the next few years, and you will both the opportunity to be part of these programmes as well as progressing your career!We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:Competitive salary and pension scheme33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 yearsCycle to work schemeHealth and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance ProgrammeDiscounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shoppingPlease see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)About YouTo be successful in this role, you will be Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C / 4) including Maths & English, minimum 5, successfully of led and managed teams (including matrix management) within an operational service delivery or shared services environment and strong stakeholder management experience.About the RoleEstablish, lead, guide, and develop a team of high performing administrators and specialists who are responsible for delivering a range of finance transactional services on behalf of St John Ambulance.Ensure monthly supplier reconciliations are completed on all accounts; identifying and resolving any discrepancies in a timely manner to ensure the account is up to date.Resolving financial transactional requests, liasing with the operational team(s), wider departments, and suppliers to resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.Plan for the management of weekly, monthly, and annual workloads across each service areaAbout UsThis is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,500 employees and over 20,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, atwww.sja.org.uk If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply belowWe reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do nottolerate any form ofdiscriminationandengendera sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship.We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.Recruitment Agencies:We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.
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