Finance Team Leader

Salary/Rate:£35,000 - £40,000 plus excellent benefits
Job type:Perm
Location:Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Business Sector:Accountancy & Finance
Job ref:KH/6886
Post Date:August 14, 2026
Short description:
Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for an impressive business based in Sheffield (City Centre), South Yorkshire, who are recruiting a Finance Team Leader to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a market-leading business with a strong reputation for investing in its people. This is a new role and will lead and oversee the group's ledger function, ensuring the accurate, timely and efficient delivery of purchase ledger, sales ledger and treasury activities.
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Meet Our Recruiter

Kayley Haythornthwaite
Kayley Haythornthwaite
Joint Managing Director | Senior & Exec Finance

About the Role

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for an impressive business based in Sheffield (City Centre), South Yorkshire, who are recruiting a Finance Team Leader to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a market-leading business with a strong reputation for investing in its people.

This is a new role and will lead and oversee the group's ledger function, ensuring the accurate, timely and efficient delivery of purchase ledger, sales ledger and treasury activities.

The role is responsible for day to day supporting, managing and developing the ledger team, maintaining strong financial controls, driving process improvements, and supporting effective cashflow management.

What will you be doing

  • Managing a team of 5 team members, with a view to this increasing to 7, you will define team KPI’s and coach and support the
  •  ledger team to deliver a high-performing and collaborative finance function
  • Produce monthly payment reporting and distribute results and actions to relevant persons
  • Monitor and ensure intercompany balance reconciliations are prepared monthly;
  • Responsible for reconciliation of various balance sheet codes relevant to AP;
  • Production of site cost reports;
  • Review and monitor Aged Creditors, including the reduction of debit balances on Creditors;
  • Forecast payment amounts and dates to feed into group cash project;
  • Aid in preparation of daily cash figures;
  • Review/oversee daily intercompany transfers;

What skills are we looking for?

  • Experience managing, supporting, or supervising a team within a purchase and/or sales ledger environment is essential.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines within a fast-paced and challenging environment.
  • Problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach and the ability to identify and implement new processes
  • Ability to work without supervision, in an orderly manner, delivering quality, accurate output.

What's on offer?

  • Annual bonus scheme.
  • Flexible and agile working opportunities.
  • 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Additional leave purchase scheme.
  • Enhanced parental leave policies.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Life assurance cover.
  • Employee Assistance Programme and much more!

If you're looking to join an impressive business that values its people, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply now or get in touch with Kayley for more details.

To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry. We offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance, from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

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