P2P Team Leader | Homebased

Who we are

VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.

What we do

We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Location: Homebased, with occasional travel within the West Midlands
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, 8:00AM to 4:30PM (Flexibility within core hours at managers discretion)

VIVO are currently recruiting for a P2P Team Leader to oversee our homebased P2P Finance Team of 11.

You will be supervising the team and their workload, ensuring all work is processed to a high quality within the set timescales.

As part of your duties, you will be responsible for the team in such ways as; managing and distributing workloads, conducting 1-1s, ensuring the team is kept up to date through weekly and monthly meetings, conducting disciplinaries and PIP’s as necessary, and ensuring the team are meeting all targets and KPIs.

You will also be interacting with internal and external stakeholders, dealing with supplier enquiries, and dealing with escalations as necessary. As well as working with the offshore accounts payable team, you will be supporting the wider finance business partners in dealing with enquiries, creating PO reports and conducting month end tasks ensuring that works are being dealt with in set time scales and to a high quality. You will be responsible for all reporting within the team.

What You Need To Do The Job:

First and foremost, you must be an experienced supervisor or team leader with a background in P2P finance or accounts payable. You will be confident and approachable, with experience in mentoring and coaching team members but also be happy to get involved with the day to day workload and processes of the team. Excellent communication, negotiation and organisational skills are essential, as well as the ability to build positive working relationships at all levels.

It is important that you have excellent Excel, data analysis, reporting and presentation preparation skills.

Due to the vetting requirements you must be able to pass BPSS Clearance.

What We Offer:

• 25 days annual leave

• Company car/car allowance

• Single private medical cover
  • Life assurance at 2 x base salary
  • 6% employer matched pension contribution
  • Excellent career progression opportunities

VIVO Defence Services

The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.

At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.

We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Leader. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. If candidates wish to request extra time to apply then they should contact 0345 010 4000 and ask to speak to a VIVO Recruiter.