Accounts Payable Manager

Purchase Ledger Manager/ P2P Lead | Chester | 9 Month Contract | Immediate Start | £40,000- £50,000 pro rata

Chester
£40-50K (pro rata)
Immediate Start
Hybrid Working

We're recruiting for a newly created P2P Lead position within a growing multi-entity organisation based in Chester. We are looking for an experienced Purchase Ledger Manager/ P2P Lead to join the finance team on an immediate-start contract, supporting the business during a busy period.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to take ownership of the purchase-to-pay cycle across several businesses and help the comapny drive efficiencies, controls and continuous improvement over a 9 month period and possibly leading to permanent for the right candidate.

Working closely with senior finance leadership, you'll play a key role in ensuring accurate transactional processing, maintaining strong supplier relationships, managing cashflow activities and supporting the wider finance function.

As P2P Lead, you'll be responsible for overseeing the entire procurement and accounts payable process across the group, ensuring robust controls, accurate processing and excellent stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, coaching and developing a small transactional finance team
• Managing the end-to-end purchase ledger process across multiple entities
• Ensuring supplier invoices are processed accurately and efficiently
• Reviewing and overseeing supplier statement reconciliations
• Managing purchase orders, expenses and company card processes
• Maintaining strong supplier relationships and resolving queries
• Monitoring aged creditors and supporting cashflow management
• Leading payment runs, including payroll-related payments
• Performing bank reconciliations and treasury administration
• Ensuring compliance with VAT, tax and internal approval processes
• Supporting audits and providing key information to external stakeholders
• Driving process improvements, automation initiatives and operational efficiencies

For this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• Significant experience within accounts payable / purchase to pay processes
• Experience working within a multi-site or multi-entity business environment
• Previous supervisory, team leadership or management experience
• Strong understanding of financial controls and transactional finance processes
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach
• The ability to work independently while managing competing priorities

Benefits:

• £40,000-50,000 salary pro rata
• Hybrid working- 2 days in the office 3 days from home
• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Opportunity to lead and develop a key finance function
• Exposure to senior stakeholders across a growing organisation
• Varied and commercially focused role
• Supportive and collaborative finance team environment

If you're looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact, improve processes and help shape the future of a growing finance function, we'd love to hear from you.