Overview
Purchase Ledger Team Lead – Admin & Expenses – Peterborough
Job title: Purchase Ledger Team Lead – Admin & Expenses
Location: Peterborough (hybrid – 3 days in office Tues-Thu)
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm
Package includes: Salary from £33,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and acknowledge your contributions, including discretionary performance related bonus, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Are you an experienced finance professional committed to accuracy and organisation, and leading teams? Do you thrive in high-volume environments where attention to detail and compliance are key?
Our Central Finance team are looking for an experienced Purchase Ledger Team Lead to oversee our Admin and Expenses team. In this role, you’ll ensure the timely and accurate processing of payments, expenses, reconciliations, and vendor data, while driving continuous improvements and supporting our business with first-class financial operations.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Administrators, ensuring workloads are effectively allocated and priorities managed.
- Overseeing accurate and timely processing of expenses, payments, reconciliations, and vendor maintenance across multiple divisions.
- Monitoring team mailboxes and ensuring responses are delivered within agreed SLAs.
- Supporting month-end close activities, including journals, reconciliations, and reporting.
- Ensuring compliance with financial controls, VAT requirements, and company policies.
- Facilitating cross-training and knowledge sharing within the team to maintain professionalism and cover.
- Identifying, escalating, and resolving queries in collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers.
- Building a culture of continuous improvement by reviewing processes, reducing errors, and embedding smarter ways of working.
What You’ll Bring
- Extensive experience managing or supervising a finance or purchase ledger team in a busy setting.
- Proficient understanding of purchase ledger processes, financial controls, and reconciliations.
- Experience with finance systems such as Basware, Concur, and SharePoint (desirable).
- Adept organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and deliver to tight deadlines.
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, with proficient problem-solving skills.
- Clear and skilled communication skills, able to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
- An engaging and supportive leadership style, with a focus on developing others.
- A continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify efficiencies and implement change.
Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
