Bank Reconciliation Team Leader - #1707858

Purpose of the Role

This exciting hybrid opportunity has arisen to join a growing Finance team in Leeds, where you will lead a team of Bank Reconciliation Analysts, ensuring financial transactions relating to insurance broking are managed and recorded and reconciled correctly.

What You Will Do

This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Collaborating with your line manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all of the following:

• Manage your teams’ workloads ensuring SLA’s and KPIs are designed, implemented and achieved, ensuring the financial transactions of our business and our Members’ businesses are reconciled in line with agreed timescales and FCA guidelines
• The face of the Bank Reconciliation team, you will be responsible for the technical excellence of the team, ensuring that we provide a high level of service to our internal business units and external Members
• Provide and drive Root Cause Analysis of timing differences to improve future operating practices across the Group.
• Build great relationships with internal and external stakeholders at varying levels; ensuring we support each other to maximise our contribution towards each other, our Members, and the Business
• Provide development support, management of escalations, direction and relevant coaching to the Bank Reconciliation Team
• Provide insight and support to MI teams to help ensure high quality information is delivered to key internal and external business users
• Supporting the future evolution of our department and wider Business by contributing your ideas and knowledge within our continuous improvement & change initiatives
  
  

Qualifications And Experience

• Reconciliation, Finance or Banking background with experience of bank reconciliation processes, ideally in an insurance environment
• People management experience is essential
• Leadership experience essential – this could be on a project or as a senior member of a team.
• Strong MS Office skills.
  
  

Most crucially for any applicant is your communication skills across all mediums, ability to use analytical and investigative skills to solve problems and respond positively to change. You will need to have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail whilst being adaptable to changing environments and priorities to ensure deadlines are met.

This is an opportunity for a proactive, resourceful, self-motivated individual who is motivated to lead a team and train others whilst working in a fast paced environment.

Benefits

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

• Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
• Award-winning learning & development offering and support to obtain professional qualifications to enhance your knowledge and career prospects
• Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
• 24-hour Employee Assistance support for you and your family’s physical and mental wellbeing
• Corporate perks such as discounted gym memberships, cinema tickets, shopping, Eyecare vouchers, cycle to work and much more
• One day paid volunteering to give back to our communities
• Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT) - raising funds for charity with donation matching in your local community
• The Spotlight Awards, where we celebrate the best of the Ardonagh Group and all the bright talent across our business.
  
  

We offer genuine potential for both personal and professional development, come and be part of our story and help us shape our future. So, what are you waiting for? Apply today and one of our team will be in touch.

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Everywhen is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check.

Please note: We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. No Agencies please.