Accounts Payable Team Leader - Estates

Accounts Payable Team Leader | Temp to Perm | Up to £40k

Location: Office-Based
Contract: Temp to Perm
Salary: Up to £40,000

We're recruiting an Accounts Payable Team Leader to take ownership of the Estates & Property spend portfolio for a market-leading retail business. This role is central to ensuring payments and financial processes run seamlessly across a large store and site estate, including rent, rates, utilities, service charges, maintenance and facilities costs.

This position requires a strong people leader with proven experience in property, estates, rental, or facilities-related finance, who understands the complexity of multi-site costs, contracts and stakeholders. Advanced Excel skills are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing AP team
• Own the end-to-end payables process for property and site-related expenditure
• Act as the finance lead for Estates, Facilities and Property stakeholders
• Oversee rent, lease, utilities, maintenance, service charge and contractor payments
• Manage supplier relationships, escalations and complex query resolution
• Drive process improvements, governance and internal controls
• Support month-end, reconciliations and financial reporting
• Ensure accuracy of payments aligned to lease terms, contracts and approvals
• Maintain service levels in a fast-paced, high-volume environment

About You

• Proven leadership experience within Accounts Payable
• Background in estates, property, rentals, facilities, leases or multi-site finance
• Confident managing high-value, high-volume payments tied to contracts
• Advanced Excel skills (essential) - confident with lookups, pivot tables, data analysis
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Process-driven with a focus on accuracy, improvement and control
• Able to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment

What's on Offer

• Temp to Perm opportunity with long-term development
• Salary up to £40,000
• Office-based role working closely with key business areas
• Opportunity to lead, influence and improve financial processes for a large store portfolio

If you're a confident AP leader with estates/property experience and strong Excel capability, looking for your next challenge in a high-impact role, we'd love to hear from you.

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