Accounts Payable Manager

Accounts Payable Manager

Location: Flexible working with time spent (weekly) in the Bradford Office

Salary: up to £45,251 depending on skills and experience

Do you have experience leading finance operations in a high-volume environment?

Are you looking for a role where you can combine people leadership with driving process improvements and financial controls? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Manager to join our Finance team. In this role, you’ll lead a team of Supervisors and Financial Administrators, ensuring we deliver a professional, accurate and customer-focused service across the Accounts Payable function.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and developing your team, creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellent customer service.
• Overseeing the delivery of daily, weekly and month-end financial processes, ensuring deadlines and compliance requirements are met.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for Accounts Payable supporting transformation and change projects.
• Maintaining robust financial controls and ensuring compliance with all internal and external standards.
• Working closely with Treasury and other Finance teams to ensure effective cashflow management and accurate reporting.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong background in transactional finance, with at least 5 years’ experience in high-volume AP/AR environments.
• Proven ability to lead, coach and motivate teams to achieve great results.
• Skilled in reconciliations, banking processes and financial systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a strong customer focus.
• AAT/CIMA/ACCA part-qualified, studying towards or qualified by experience.

Why join us? This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a leadership role where you’ll have real influence on both people and processes. You’ll be part of a supportive finance team, working on a variety of projects that will help shape the way we do things in the future.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your finance career, we’d love to hear from you.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.