Accounts Payable Team Lead: Up to £42,000 + bonus
Hybrid Two days per week in our support office in Fitzrovia
About Powerleague
Powerleague is the UK’s leading provider of small-sided football, with a growing footprint and a clear ambition to evolve beyond our traditional offer.
Alongside continued investment in our core football business, we’ve expanded into padel, with new courts launched in Birmingham, Shoreditch, and Manchester. This is just the start. Our growth plans mean increased complexity, more sites, and a bigger, more dynamic financial operation.
It’s a genuinely interesting time to join. Things are moving, and finance sits right at the centre of that.
We’re looking for someone who goes beyond processing and oversight. Someone who can bring structure, challenge existing ways of working, and build a more efficient, scalable AP operation.
You’ll take full ownership of the function, partner closely with the Head of Finance, and play a key role in strengthening financial control, improving reporting, and driving continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of the Accounts Payable function, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled processing across all activities
- Lead and develop the AP team (1 direct report), setting clear standards and driving performance
- Own the end-to-end AP cycle including invoices, expenses, supplier payments, and reconciliations
- Review and authorise payment runs, ensuring robust controls, approvals, and cashflow alignment
- Act as the key escalation point for complex supplier queries and invoice discrepancies
- Drive improvements in purchase order processes and invoice matching accuracy
- Lead the AP month-end close, including accruals, prepayments, and cost analysis, ensuring deadlines are consistently met
- Strengthen financial controls, ensuring compliance with VAT, audit requirements, and internal policies
- Take ownership of AP-related balance sheet accounts, ensuring reconciliations are accurate and issues are proactively resolved
- Partner with stakeholders across the business to improve financial visibility and support decision-making
- Play a key role in system optimisation (NetSuite or similar), identifying opportunities to automate and streamline processes
- Oversee master data governance to ensure integrity of supplier and financial data
- Provide insight into spend, trends, and risks, supporting budgeting and forecasting processes
- Lead or support finance improvement projects, particularly around automation, scalability, and efficiency
Skills & Experience
- Strong experience within Accounts Payable, including leading or mentoring others
- Track record of improving processes, controls, or systems within a finance function
- Solid understanding of financial controls, VAT, and audit requirements
- Experience working with ERP systems (NetSuite or similar preferred)
- Strong Excel and data analysis capability
- Confident working with senior stakeholders and challenging where needed
- Able to balance hands-on delivery with a more strategic, improvement-focused mindset
What We’re Looking For
Someone who doesn’t just run AP, but improves it.
You’ll be comfortable stepping into a function, spotting where things aren’t quite right, and quietly raising the standard. Not for the sake of it, but because you know what good looks like.