Accounts Payable Specialist

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Community Integrated Care are on an exciting journey of transformation and growth and is looking to recruit a** **an experienced and confident** **Accounts Payable Specialist** **to join the Finance team on a Full-time Permanent 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**:
The role of Accounts Payable Specialist will predominately be responsible for the contribution towards the efficient running of the Charity’s Accounts Payable, Company Credit Card and Petty Cash processes.

**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
- Communicating with suppliers and internal colleagues regarding any payment queries and escalating any overdue non-approved items
- Completing monthly supplier statement reconciliations for our top 5 suppliers
- Investigating and resolving historic creditor transactions
- Preparing and processing supplier payment runs, ensuring that the payment value has been approved by a senior member of the Finance Team
- Verifying new suppliers and amendments to supplier details, ensuring that appropriate approval is obtained
- Processing weekly employee expenses, ensuring that spot checks have been completed and any issues queried with the employee

**Your values**:

- 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, Reconciliation or General Ledger including double entry
- You might be AAT Qualified but we but we recognise and value experience equally

**Interested and want to know a bit more?**

**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 2023 Colleague Engagement Survey, 56% (over 3,300) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +28. This is a measure of how positively our colleagues talk about us - and 28 is an excellent score compared to other organisations