P2P Manager

Accounts Payable Supervisor | Ellesmere Port | £ | Permanent, hybrid working

We're recruiting for a newly created Accounts Payable Supervisor position within a growing multi-entity organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to take ownership of the purchase-to-pay cycle across several businesses while helping drive efficiencies, controls and continuous improvement.

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 Accounts Payable Supervisor, 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

As Accounts Payable Supervisor, you will get

£ salary

Hybrid working

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.