Job Description

Community Integrated Care is on an exciting journey of transformation and growth and is looking to recruit an experienced and confident Accounts Payable Specialist to join the Finance team on a 6 month fixed term maternity cover contract basis based from our Head office in Widnes.
What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You need to be available to work from our office in Widnes when required but otherwise you can work from home or flex between the two.
• Competitive Salary: 25,000 - 28,000 per annum (dependent upon experience)
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: life assurance, retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

Who you'll be supporting & more about the role:
Reporting to the Accounts Payable and Treasury Manager, the Accounts Payable Specialist will contribute towards the day-to-day Accounts Payable function of the charity, adhering to policies, following processes and maintaining controls, to assist in the delivery of a high performing service. This is a varied role involving Accounts Payable and supporting in business expense reimbursement, corporate card and petty cash queries. The Accounts Payable Specialist plays a crucial role in maintaining and contributing towards financial processes in these areas, ensuring payments are made as per our contractual obligations and supporting our operational colleagues with a quality service.
Day to Day (list not exhaustive see attached JD)

• Assisting with the processing of purchase invoices and the three-way match to the purchase order and goods receipt, ensuring correct general ledger coding
• The uploading of large, consolidated invoices
• Completing monthly supplier statement reconciliations
• Investigating and resolving historic creditor transactions
• Verifying new suppliers and amendments to supplier details, ensuring that appropriate approval is obtained
• Assisting with reporting relating to Accounts Payable processes
• Supporting more junior colleagues in their duties, where required
• Deputising for the Accounts Payable & Treasury Manager in their absence

Your values:
Our Ideal Candidate

• You are a confident communicator - you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
• You're definitely a people person- you are great at listening, building relationships and influencing at all levels, internally and externally!
• You enjoy problem-solving, with a curiosity and tenacity to resolve issues.
• You are confident using Microsoft Office, with strong Microsoft Excel Skills
• You're brilliant at prioritising, ensuring all key deadlines are achieved

Skills and Experience

• You'll have brilliant experience in Accounts Payable
• You might be AAT Qualified but we but we recognise and value experience equally

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.
Interested and want to know a bit more?
To find out more about our charity check out:
We're really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.
The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones - and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.

Skills Required