Reference 165154
Finance Team Leader – Accounts Payable
Trident Close, Erdington, Birmingham
£33,926.17 per annum
37.5 hours per week
This is an office based role working 9;00am - 17:00pm, Monday to Friday with no hybrid working
Closing date 20th July 2026
About the role
The main purpose of the role is to maintain key financial support mainly across Purchase Ledger. To give assistance across Sales Ledger, Cashbook Management and Rent Income Allocations. You will maintain strong financial controls alongside Finance Colleagues and help deliver financial resources across the team
What you’ll be doing
Finance
- Assist in delivering accounting functions mainly on Accounts Payable and to assist on Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Rent Income and Bank and any other adhoc duties where required
- Leading a small Team on Accounts Payable
- Maintaining robust financial processes, ensuring a strong audit trail for all transactions
- Process transactions within agreed time scales
- Working to be flexible to meet all deadlines
- Providing cover during other colleague absence where necessary
- Working with and creating a culture of delivery and process improvement
- Ensure accuracy in processing of transactional data
- Ensure good quality process notes for all processes
- Assist in year-end audit work.
- Responsible for working within appropriate policies in areas of responsibility, in line with current legislation and best practice
- Ensure efficient and effective filing and information systems
Performance Management and Improvement
- To work within agreed set Service Level Agreements
- Participate in performance training and development activities as required
- Contribute to the continual improvement and efficiency, within Finance and the business
Collaboration and Communication
- Effective building, maintaining, and sustaining relationships with key colleagues
- Deal with queries effectively, liaising with outside agencies and colleagues
- Create good relationships across the business. Building trust within our team, our systems, and our processes
- Work with the business so they understand and adhere to key processes and
Experience
- Experience of working in Finance preferably in Purchase Ledger and Bank
- Experience of working with finance systems
- Experience of leading others
Knowledge
- Working knowledge of maintaining financial controls and adhering to procurement policies and procedures
- Understand double entry to ensure transactions are posted correctly across multiple systems
- Good knowledge of Excel and other MS packages
Skills
- Able to demonstrate commitment to our core values.
- Exceptional organisation and communication skills including verbal, nonverbal and written.
- Strong numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Highly organised, supportive, collaborative and able to problem solve
- Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Able to motivate self and contribute as a team player.
- Emotionally intelligent with the ability to build and maintain relationships
across a diverse, geographically dispersed workforce
- To ensure adherence to finance policies across the business.
- Strong people skills for effective liaison with internal and external clients
Why join us?
This is not just a ‘job’ this is the feeling of knowing that you are part of something bigger and being able to go home each day with job satisfaction and pride in what is achieved by Trident Group every day.
Our purpose is putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide. To deliver against our purpose we will be:
- Trustworthy
- Collaborative
- Accountable
- People Focused
- Caring in all we do
The benefits
- 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
- A day off for your birthday
- 4 days off when you move home
- Life assurance (3 x salary)
- Employee Assistance programme & wellbeing programme
- Flexible Working options
- Learning & Development opportunities
Who we are?
Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 650 staff, works with volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more.
The Group consists of;
- Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
- Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma informed care and support services.
We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a trauma informed organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:
- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- communicating and promoting vacancies
- offering an interview to disabled people
- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
How to apply?
If you think this role is a good fit for you, click apply and upload your CV
All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.
As an organisation we do not offer visa sponsorships. Only applicants with existing right to work in the UK will be consdidered.
Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
At Trident Group, we only consider agency introductions where a signed agreement is in place, and where the agency has been specifically contacted by a member of our People & Culture Team. We do not accept responsibility for any fees related to unsolicited or speculative CV submissions made directly to our employees or outside of the above.
