Purchase Ledger Team Leader

🌍 Location: Westbury, Wiltshire
💰 Salary: Competitive, DOE
⏰ Hours: 40 hrs per week, Monday-Friday, 9:00 – 17:30

📓 Your role

Are you a natural leader with a passion for teamwork and making a difference? We’re looking for a Purchase Ledger Team Leader to guide and inspire our dedicated Purchase Ledger Team. In this role, you’ll bring flexibility, initiative, strength, and a collaborative spirit to the table, supporting colleagues, delighting customers, and partnering with management and directors to achieve shared goals. If you take pride in helping others succeed and thrive on building a positive, high-performing team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Role Level on the Rygor Career Journey Map: M1, Team Leader

Rygor is an official UK Best Workplace for Development, and we are committed to helping you achieve your goals, which is why we have a career journey map to help you understand your potential routes of development. As an individual contributor, you carry out your role to the highest standards, living and breathing our company values of being Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful. You take pride in your work and collaborate with others to ensure the job gets done.

👋 What’s it like to be part of Team Rygor?

"It’s a great place to work, with lots of opportunities and great people to work with. I have progressed from being the Receptionist to now assisting with all aspects of health and safety in branch." – Caroline

🗓️ Day to day, you will be:

As our Purchase Ledger Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping a high-performing team while keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes. Your days will be varied, rewarding, and filled with opportunities to make a real impact by implementing ideas and initiatives to help ensure efficiency.

• Step up as a trusted deputy – support the Finance Manager by taking the lead on all purchase ledger matters whenever required.
• A strong communicator and comfortable talking with suppliers.
• Lead and support the team – oversee daily operations of the purchase ledger team, solve escalated issues, and make sure everything runs like clockwork.
• Keep us on track – ensure deadlines are met and month-end close runs seamlessly across all ledgers.
• Inspire and motivate – create a positive, efficient, and quality-driven working culture where the team feels supported and empowered especially during busy periods.
• A problem solver - you are a solutions-driven individual.
• Invest in people – monitor skills, identify training needs, and provide ongoing coaching to help every team member grow and succeed.
• Guide and develop talent – manage onboarding and training for new hires, while supporting regular 1:1s, probation reviews, and performance appraisals.
• Own the numbers – deliver accurate and insightful reporting for the Finance Manager, including aged creditors, reconciliations, duplicate invoice checks, and verification analysis.
• Protect accuracy and quality – review work to ensure accuracy, resolve issues, and put improvements in place where needed.
• Collaborate on key accounts and ensuring regular, accurate reporting – handle aged creditor analysis, unallocated reporting, verification analysis, duplicate invoicing assessment and rectification, reporting and monitoring efficient and accurate supplier statement reconciliations, resolving held invoices on the ledgers, reconciliations, and maintenance of key accounts, company payments, and administration of invoices for all businesses within the group.
• Adapt and support – step in with ad-hoc duties to keep the Finance function moving forward.