Payroll and Accounts Payable Accountant (UK Clients)

Charity Accounting Partners; Manila; Remote; PHP 286,284,000 - 572,569,000; Part time

Job summary

Charity Accounting Partners is seeking a payroll and accounts payable specialist to own UK payroll and supplier payments for its charity clients. This fully remote role overlaps UK working hours with Philippine time, offering independence and flexible scheduling while ensuring on-time payroll processing and accurate supplier payments.

Responsibilities include end-to-end UK payroll (RTI, PAYE, NI, auto-enrolment), AP workflow, creditor reconciliations, and answering payroll queries promptly.

Qualifications

• Hands-on payroll and accounts payable experience, ideally in a corporate or outsourced finance environment.
• Experience with Xero or QuickBooks Online, with certifications an advantage.
• CPA qualification preferred but not essential if your payroll and AP experience is strong.
• Comfortable with deadlines that do not move; payroll runs when it runs.
• Genuine attention to detail and ability to identify and resolve mismatches.
• UK payroll RTI and auto-enrolment experience is a significant advantage and affects the rate.

Responsibilities

• Own UK payroll end-to-end for clients: processing, RTI submissions to HMRC, PAYE and National Insurance, auto-enrolment pension duties, statutory payments, P45s, P60s and payroll year end.
• Accounts payable: supplier invoice processing, approval workflows, payment runs in Apron, supplier queries and resolution.
• Reconciling the creditors ledger and posting the payroll journal, including pension and employer costs.
• Answer payroll queries from client staff and trustees directly, clearly and quickly.
• Keep payroll and AP processes documented and continuously improved.

Skills

Payroll processing

Accounts payable

RTI compliance

Pensions (auto-enrolment)

Xero

QuickBooks Online

Education

CPA qualification

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks Online

Job description

Charity Accounting Partners is an ICAEW-regulated accountancy firm. We run the finance function for UK charities, the kind of organisations doing work that matters, and we do it with a small, fully remote team across several countries.

We are looking for someone to own UK payroll and accounts payable across our client base. You will be the person who makes sure people get paid correctly and on time, suppliers are paid on schedule, and HMRC deadlines are never missed.

What you will own

• UK payroll end to end for our clients: processing, RTI submissions to HMRC, PAYE and National Insurance, auto-enrolment pension duties, statutory payments, P45s, P60s and payroll year end.
• Accounts payable: supplier invoice processing, approval workflows, payment runs in Apron, supplier queries and resolution.
• Reconciling the creditors ledger and posting the payroll journal, including pension and employer costs.
• Answering payroll queries from client staff and trustees directly, clearly and quickly.
• Keeping our payroll and AP processes documented and improving them where you see a better way.

What we are looking for

• Solid hands-on payroll and accounts payable experience, ideally gained in a corporate or outsourced finance environment rather than the charity sector.
• Experience with Xero or QuickBooks Online, with certifications an advantage.
• CPA qualification preferred but not essential if your payroll and AP experience is strong.
• Comfortable with deadlines that do not move. Payroll runs when it runs.
• Someone who raises a problem early rather than hoping it resolves itself.
• Genuine interest in getting the detail right, and in working out why something does not reconcile.

UK payroll experience, specifically RTI and auto-enrolment, is a significant advantage and affects the rate.

Terms

• Independent contractor engagement. You are responsible for your own taxes and statutory contributions.
• A published progression path with defined criteria, so you always know what the next step requires
• Fully remote, permanently.
• Online 4pm to 8pm Philippine time on working days so you overlap with the UK morning. Outside those hours, when you work is up to you.
• A genuinely supportive team, and clients whose work you will be glad to support.