Accounts Receivable Team Lead

About the Role

Even the best scientific institutes cannot flourish without a well-managed cash flow. We are seeking an Account Receivable Team Lead to guide the team responsible for ensuring the management, maintenance and reconciliation of the sales ledger in line with management accounting practices. The team ensures credit control activities are performed to business guidelines, and that NPL operations function effectively by ensuring invoices are raised to customers and cash receipts are received and allocated on a timely basis.

This is a new role arising from the adoption of a new Enterprise Resources Platform and the role holder will have the opportunity to influence the development of systems and processes to drive improvements in the team. As the lead for the Accounts Receivable (AR) team, you will be responsible for delegating the workload to the team and monitoring progress to ensure that that company accounting practice is followed, the workload is completed in a timely and efficient manner, and team targets for raising invoices and allocating cash are met. Using your professional knowledge, you will help the team resolve complex accounts and deal with the challenges found in dealing with the wide range of customer and contract types. Utilising knowledge of invoicing and receipts, you will assist with cash flow forecasting and reporting.

About You

What you can bring to the role

Key Criteria:

• Track record of delivering accounts receivable and credit control activity, ideally with a mixture of commercial and government accounts.
• Experience of preparing cash flow and other forecasts for reporting for business management.
• Good communication skills for managing and maintaining relationships with colleagues and customers to ensure queries and problems are dealt with efficiently.
• A passion for continuous improvement, encouraging and supporting staff to challenge inefficiencies.
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office
• Managed staff, to ensure performance targets are communicated and delivered

Desirable Criteria :

• Experience of using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for financial management and control.
• Demonstrated commitment to support staff develop knowledge and skills, encouraging professional development.

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

About Us

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. Find out more about what it is like working here - The measure of us - Overview
NPL and DSIT have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.