Banking & Purchase Ledger Team Leader

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Banking & Purchase Ledger Team Leader to join our team in central Bristol.

The Team Leader will be responsible for leading the Banking & Purchase Ledger (BP&L) function within Finance Operations, ensuring the team delivers accurate, timely, and compliant financial processing across ARAG UK Group’s bank accounts and purchase ledger activities. This role plays a critical part in managing liquidity, supporting financial reporting, and maintaining governance standards in line with Company Policies.

The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day operations of the BP&L team, ensuring that all payments in and out of ARAG are recorded correctly, reconciliations are completed to a high standard, and queries from internal and external stakeholders are resolved efficiently. They will act as a key liaison with the Financial Accounting & Control team, auditors, and other departments, ensuring that ARAG’s financial controls and reporting obligations are met.

This is a great opportunity for someone with good communication skills at all levels, who is self-motivated and proactive and who has experience of working within a banking, financial payments or cash management environment and although experience within insurance or a financial services industry would be highly advantageous, this is not essential.

We’d like to hear from candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience in a Cash Management, Treasury or comparable Operations Manager role (Desirable)
• Experience dealing with resource planning, developing and monitoring KPI, coaching and mentoring others to achieve their full potential and delivering against targets to drive improved performance (Desirable);
• Excellent knowledge of FCA & PRA and SRA regulations;
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Applications; and
• A keen attention to detail, seeking new ways to enhance processes and controls ensuring that improvements are implemented effectively.

ARAG UK has been helping businesses and individuals gain access to justice for over 40 years. It’s our founding principle to enable everybody, not just those who can afford it, to assert their legal rights.

Thousands of businesses and individuals defend or pursue legal action each year safe in the knowledge that ARAG are paying their legal bills. Our businesses include a legal expenses insurance company and a law firm with many opportunities in both areas.

We have always been aware that it’s the people that really make it happen; the quality of our people defines the quality of the company, the service we offer and the good outcomes for our customers, so we’re committed to creating a great place to work for our employees.

We believe it is an exciting time to join ARAG. You can expect an organisation that will challenge and develop you to progress your career.  

By giving you every opportunity to develop yourself professionally and personally, we also pride ourselves on having an open, inclusive and high energy culture that encourages a fun working environment and places our customers at the very heart of everything we do.

If you are keen to become part of our exciting future then we would love to hear from you. In addition to the very genuine development opportunities we provide we also offer a generous reward and benefits package.