Purchase Ledger Team Leader

Education/Qualification

• 2019 Pareto Law – Team Leader Management
• 2019 Pareto Law – Challenging Conversations
• 2002 Skills Solution – GNVQ Business Administration Level 2
• 2001 Mancat College – GCSEs Grade C
• 2000 Moston Brook High School – 6 GCSEs including Mathematics and English

Systems used

• Sage Line 500
• Sage Line 50
• Sage Line 200
• Xero
• Business Central
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Sostenuto (customised internal system within SharePoint)
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Teams
• ClearPay

Career Summary

Most Recent Employer – IT Consulting and Managed Services Business (6-month fixed contract)

Position – Finance Team Leader

Dates – September 2024 – March 2025

• Reported to the Financial Controller on a 6-month fixed term contract
• Worked in all aspects of both purchase ledger and sales ledger, project management and credit control
• Dealt with the monitoring of internal and external contracts
• Gained lots of knowledge and skills working on Microsoft Dynamics & accounting software Xero

Previous Employer – IT Support and Services

Position – Purchase Ledger Team Leader

Dates – January 2011 – September 2024

• Responsible for all aspects of the Purchase Ledger department
• Supervised our accounts payable team, including finance apprentices, whom I have trained the first aspects of the purchase ledger role and general administration duties
• Took on the Team Leader role
• Helped with the current merger of UK Fast (preparing both companies to be on one ledger)
• Reduction of un-allocated cash on system of £2.5m
• High levels of query resolution
• Input and changes of improving Sostenuto when this was first implemented.
• Maintained an excellent relationship with all suppliers
• Entered supplier invoices within Business Central & Sostenuto
• Resolved supplier queries
• Reconciled supplier statements
• Prepared payment runs
• Processed and allocating payments
• Banking – preparing payments at the bank
• Management of our internal credit card program (ClearPay)
• Dealt with foreign currencies, including hedging and processing payments through Alpha
• Managed supplier Direct Debits

Dates – December 2008 – January 2011

Career Break – I spent this time looking after my son

Previous Employer – Supply Chain Consultancy

Position – Finance Assistant and Purchase Ledger Clerk

Dates – October 2005 – December 2008

• Responsible of half of the suppliers within the Purchase Ledger along with another colleague of mine.  Using the packages, Sage Line 500 & Microsoft Excel
• Maintained an excellent relationship with all my key suppliers
• Learnt the different aspects of freight & duty with DHL
• Knowledge of Sage 500
• Oversaw my own key suppliers
• Entered supplier invoices
• Resolved supplier queries
• Reconciled supplier statements
• Prepared payment runs
• Dealt with freight and vat and duty invoices
• Raised purchase orders within an internet-based system
• Entered expenses
• General administration duties

Previous Employer – Paint Manufacturer

Position – Finance Assistant / Purchase Ledger Clerk

Dates – November 2001 – September 2005

• Responsible of the full Purchase Ledger, using Sage Line 50 & Microsoft Excel, also dealing with the daily bank reconciliation for the Company
• Learnt firsthand from the FD, all aspects of general day to day banking (including writing cheques and paying in slips)
• Learnt all aspects of general administration and implementing my own filing system
• Knowledge of Sage Line 50
• Entered all supplier invoices
• Reconciled supplier statements
• Prepared payment runs
• Processed and allocated payments
• Processed of credit card payments
• Credit Control
• Entered expenses
• Daily banking reconciliation using the accounts package Sage Line 50
• Troubleshooting
• General administration duties