The posting
As our Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable Team Leader, you will lead the day-to-day delivery of our Purchase to Pay and Order to Cash functions, ensuring supplier payments, customer receipts, credit control and reconciliations are managed efficiently and accurately. Working closely with teams across Finance, Procurement, Commercial and Operations, you will drive process improvements, increase automation, strengthen financial controls and lead a high-performing team to deliver an exceptional service to internal and external stakeholders. What will your day look like…
Lead, coach and develop the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams, ensuring high performance, effective workload management and exceptional service delivery. Oversee end-to-end AP and AR operations, including supplier payments, customer billing, cash allocation, credit control, collections and ledger management. Drive improvements in payment performance and cash collection, reducing aged debt while ensuring invoices and payments are processed accurately and on time. Maintain the integrity of supplier and customer ledgers through regular reconciliations, proactive query resolution and effective exception management. Act as the key escalation point for complex supplier, customer and stakeholder issues, delivering timely and professional resolutions. Collaborate with Procurement and key business stakeholders to enhance supplier onboarding, invoice compliance, purchase order quality and overall process efficiency. Strengthen financial controls, ensuring reconciliations, month-end activities, audit requirements, KPIs and SLAs are consistently achieved. Lead continuous improvement and finance transformation initiatives, driving automation, system enhancements and the adoption of innovative AP and AR solutions to improve efficiency and service performance.
About you…
Proven experience leading or supervising Accounts Payable and/or Accounts Receivable teams within a fast-paced, high-volume transactional finance environment. Strong knowledge of Purchase to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C), credit control, collections, supplier payments and ledger reconciliation processes. Experience working with ERP finance systems, ideally Oracle NetSuite, with a solid understanding of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules. Ability to analyse and interpret financial data, including KPIs, SLAs, aged debt, creditor reporting and cash flow metrics, to drive performance improvements. Strong understanding of financial controls, governance, audit requirements and best practice processes, with a focus on accuracy and compliance. Proven track record of identifying process improvements, reducing exceptions and driving automation and efficiency across finance operations. Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coach, motivate and develop high-performing teams. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Experience with AP automation solutions is essential, while a professional finance or Credit & Collections qualification would be advantageous.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa process. Applicants must therefore have, and maintain, an alternative right to work for the duration of employment. What’s in it for you…
24 days holiday plus bank holidays Company pension scheme Life assurance Avove Discount Scheme Family friendly policies A selection of lifestyle benefit options Financial wellbeing programme Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.
About Avove... Avove is a leading infrastructure services provider, delivering critical utility and energy solutions across the UK. With a strong focus on safety, sustainability, and innovation, we specialise in the design, maintenance, and renewal of essential infrastructure for water, energy, and telecoms networks. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to long-term investment in training, development, and modern equipment to support our teams in delivering high-quality, reliable services for our clients and communities. We are an equal opportunities employer... At the heart of what we do is a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We celebrate what makes each of us unique and are building a workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to be their authentic selves.
