Accounts Payable and Treasury Manager

Community Integrated Care; Widnes; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retail discounts

Holiday discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Travel discounts via benefits app

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking an experienced Accounts Payable & Treasury Manager to join our Finance Leadership Team in Widnes. You will own AP and treasury, ensuring robust controls, timely payments, and strong cash management while leading a high-performing team.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, a fast-paced environment, and developing staff to support the charity’s financial excellence and stakeholder service across our organisation.

Qualifications

• Significant Accounts Payable experience within a large/complex organisation.
• Experience leading and developing teams with varying skill sets.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, reconciliations and payment processes.
• Experience analysing large volumes of financial data and identifying key insights.
• Experience working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, ensuring supplier payments are accurate, authorised and made on time.
• Oversee treasury activities, including the administration and reconciliation of business bank accounts.
• Manage business expense reimbursements, corporate card programmes and petty cash controls.
• Drive accurate balance sheet reconciliations to support internal reporting and statutory accounts.
• Produce financial analysis and insights, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Support working capital management through short-term cash flow forecasting and reporting.
• Build strong relationships with banking partners, card providers and key suppliers.
• Lead process improvements and system enhancements to increase efficiency, effectiveness and value for money.
• Develop, coach and motivate a high-performing team, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and excellent customer service.
• Ensure financial controls, governance and compliance standards are maintained and enhanced.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Team leadership

Financial controls

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

GCSE Maths & English

AAT qualification (desirable)

Job description

Help Shape a Finance Centre of Excellence

At Community Integrated Care, we're one of the UK's largest and most successful social care charities, delivering high-quality support that enables people to live the best lives possible. As we continue our journey of transformation and growth, we're looking for an experienced Accounts Payable & Treasury Manager to join our Finance Leadership Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional leadership skills. You'll take ownership of our Accounts Payable and Treasury functions, ensuring robust financial controls, efficient payment processes, strong cash management, and an outstanding service for colleagues and suppliers alike.

If you're passionate about continuous improvement, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and enjoy leading and developing high-performing teams, we'd love to hear from you.

This is a 12-18 month fixed term contract with attendance at our head office required at least once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of 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.
• 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 our Accounts Payable & Treasury Manager, you'll lead a dedicated team responsible for the smooth and effective delivery of critical finance processes across the organisation.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, ensuring supplier payments are accurate, authorised and made on time.
• Oversee treasury activities, including the administration and reconciliation of business bank accounts.
• Manage business expense reimbursements, corporate card programmes and petty cash controls.
• Drive accurate balance sheet reconciliations to support internal reporting and statutory accounts.
• Produce financial analysis and insights, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Support working capital management through short-term cash flow forecasting and reporting.
• Build strong relationships with banking partners, card providers and key suppliers.
• Lead process improvements and system enhancements to increase efficiency, effectiveness and value for money.
• Develop, coach and motivate a high-performing team, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and excellent customer service.
• Ensure financial controls, governance and compliance standards are maintained and enhanced.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a collaborative and proactive finance leader who enjoys finding solutions, improving processes and developing people.

• Significant Accounts Payable experience within a large and complex organisation.
• Experience leading and developing teams with varying skill sets.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, reconciliations and payment processes.
• Experience analysing large volumes of financial data and identifying key insights.
• Experience working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent Excel and analytical skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and consistently meet deadlines.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills.

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English (Grade C/Level 4 or above) or equivalent.
• AAT qualification or studying towards AAT (desirable).

Why Join Community Integrated Care?

At Community Integrated Care, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to offer a supportive, inclusive and values-driven culture where colleagues can thrive professionally and personally.

Ready to Lead and Improve?

If you're an experienced Accounts Payable leader looking for a role where you can influence strategy, improve processes, develop people and help drive financial excellence across a national charity, we'd love to hear from you.

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.