Keep Our Charity Running Smoothly – One Payment at a Time
At Community Integrated Care, we believe in delivering the highest quality support to the people we work alongside. Behind every successful service is a dedicated team ensuring our finances are managed accurately, efficiently, and with care.
We're looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Finance team and play a pivotal role in ensuring suppliers are paid on time, colleagues are supported, and financial controls remain robust. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, thrives on attention to detail, and wants to contribute to an organisation that changes lives every day.
This is a 12-18 month fixed term contract role with attendance at our head office in Widnes at least once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of 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.
- Benefits: 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 bolder
- Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
- Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing online training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
- 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.
As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you'll be responsible for supporting the day-to-day Accounts Payable function, helping to deliver a high-performing, customer-focused service across the organisation.
What you'll be doing:
- Process and manage supplier invoices, ensuring accurate coding and compliance with purchasing procedures.
- Prepare and process supplier payment runs and support manual payments where required.
- Complete supplier statement and balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
- Manage supplier queries and build positive relationships with both suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Support the administration of corporate credit cards, petty cash processes, and employee expense reimbursements.
- Analyse financial information, identify trends and potential risks, and contribute to regular reporting.
- Ensure compliance with financial controls, policies, and procedures.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and service delivery.
- Assist in developing and supporting junior team members.
- Act as deputy to the Accounts Payable & Treasury Manager when required.
What We're Looking For:
You'll be someone who combines strong technical Accounts Payable experience with excellent communication and customer service skills.
Essential experience and skills:
- Significant Accounts Payable experience within a busy finance environment.
- Strong understanding of general ledger accounting and double-entry principles.
- Experience completing reconciliations and resolving complex financial queries.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to process high volumes accurately.
- Confident communicator who can build effective relationships internally and externally.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
Desirable:
- AAT qualification (or currently studying towards one).
- Experience working with Agresso or similar finance systems.
Why Join Us?
At Community Integrated Care, you'll be part of a charity that genuinely puts people first. You'll join a supportive and collaborative Finance team where your expertise will have a direct impact on our ability to deliver outstanding care and support across the UK.
Ready to Apply?
If you're an experienced Accounts Payable professional looking for a role where your skills will make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us ensure every pound is spent supporting people to live the best lives possible.
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s
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.
