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Accounts Payable Lead
Full-time Accounts Payable Team Leader
Ref: 39370
Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full-time (39) Location: Chester House, Epsom Ave, Handforth, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, SK9 3RN
Hybrid Working: 2 Days Per Week at Handforth (Cheshire) Office
About The Role
As our Accounts Payable Team Leader, you’ll lead a team of five colleagues, including two remote team members, ensuring a consistent and high-quality service across our finance operations.
With a minimum of two years’ experience managing people and five or more years in Accounts Payable, you must bring both strong leadership and technical expertise.
Your role will involve:
- Connecting teams across the business and with our suppliers
- Supporting our Support Office and Practice Owners (POs)
- Identifying opportunities to evolve and strengthen our processes
Key Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver an effective AP service
- Partner with Practices, Operations, and Commercial teams to ensure a joined-up approach
- Drive continuous improvement in AP processes, systems, and ways of working
- Simplify processes to improve efficiency and enhance the experience for PO’s
- Coach and train colleagues, suppliers, and partners on purchasing best practice
- Lead, support, and mentor the AP team to maintain performance and engagement
- Develop practical solutions to resolve process challenges and improve operations
- Create and monitor KPIs and reports to track performance and drive improvements
- Maintain accurate supplier master data and ensure reporting requirements are met
- Ensure strong controls, compliance, and ongoing system integrity
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About You
We’re looking for candidates with:
- Strong Accounts Payable experience, including day-to-day people management
- Ability to support and motivate a team while balancing competing priorities
- Understanding of finance ERP systems, ideally SAP S/4 HANA
- Comfort in using these systems to support efficiency and accuracy
- Strong relationship-building skills to collaborate with stakeholders across the business
- Willingness to provide holiday cover for locum teams when required
- Experience managing remote team members (desired)
- Organisational and problem-solving mindset to handle multiple demands
- Commitment to high standards of deliverable quality
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Additionally:
- Completion of approved training (such as Safeguarding Administration (SA)) is desirable
- Membership of a trade union may be beneficial
Our Culture
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate.
We take our inspiration from pets and value diversity in all its forms. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, and we encourage every colleague to be themselves.
— Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you believe you can contribute uniquely through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.
Organisation: Pets at Home
Date Posted: June 17th, 2026
Expiry Date: July 3rd, 2026
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