Accounts Payable Manager

Job Profile

LSL Property Services plc is one of the UK’s leading providers of services to the property industry, bringing together a range of businesses and expertise across the residential surveying, estate agency and financial services markets. We are bringing together finance activities from across the Group into a central Finance Hub in Newcastle, creating more consistent ways of working and strengthening our finance operations. As part of this centralisation, we have created an exciting new opportunity for an Accounts Payable Manager to join our Central Finance team.Based within our Newcastle upon Tyne office, you’ll lead our Accounts Payable operation and a small team, while playing an important role in embedding effective processes, controls and ways of working within the new Finance Hub.

What you’ll be doing:

Reporting to the Head of Finance Operations, you will:

• Lead the day-to-day Accounts Payable operation, ensuring an accurate, efficient and service-focused approach.
• Manage and develop the AP team, setting clear expectations and supporting performance and development.
• Oversee invoices, credit notes, expenses, credit card transactions, supplier reconciliations and payment runs.
• Maintain strong financial controls across the purchase-to-pay process.
• Manage escalated supplier and internal queries, ensuring timely and professional resolution.
• Support month-end and year-end activities, reconciliations, reporting and audit requirements.
• Monitor workloads, backlogs, risks and service levels.
• Identify opportunities to improve and standardise processes, systems and ways of working.
• Support wider change as the Newcastle Finance Hub continues to develop.

What we’re looking for

• Strong Accounts Payable or transactional finance experience.
• Good knowledge of end-to-end purchase-to-pay processes.
• Experience supervising, coordinating or developing others within a finance team.
• Experience of invoice processing, supplier reconciliations, payment runs and resolving escalated queries.
• Good understanding of financial controls, approval processes and segregation of duties.
• Experience supporting month-end activities and audit requirements.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Good finance systems and Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience in a shared services, multi-entity or high-volume environment would be advantageous.
• Experience of Sun Finance and Proactis would be desirable.
• AAT qualified, part-qualified or working towards AAT or a similar finance qualification would be advantageous.

Why join LSL?

• Join a newly centralised Finance Hub and help shape how our Accounts Payable service develops.
• Take ownership of a key finance operation with the opportunity to improve processes and ways of working.
• Lead and develop a team within a changing and evolving finance environment.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Finance, Procurement and the wider LSL Group.
• Be part of a major UK property services group at an exciting stage in the development of its finance operations.

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne – predominantly office-based.If you’re an experienced Accounts Payable professional who enjoys leading teams, improving processes and delivering a high-quality finance service, we’d love to hear from you.