Accounts Payable Manager

About the company

We are recruiting on behalf of an established business seeking an Accounts Payable & Ledger Control Manager to take ownership of its accounts payable function, strengthen financial controls and ensure the accuracy of financial ledgers and reporting.

Your tasks

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, hands-on finance professional who enjoys combining technical accounting responsibilities with team supervision, problem-solving and continuous process improvement.

Your responsibilities as an Accounts Payable Manager will include:

• Overseeing the full Accounts Payable process, including supplier onboarding, invoice processing, approval workflows, supplier queries and payment runs.
• Supervising the AP workload, monitoring backlogs and ensuring invoices are processed accurately and within deadlines.
• Reviewing purchase orders, invoice authorisation, nominal coding and supporting documentation, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Maintaining accurate nominal ledger accounts and reviewing cost allocations across departments, sites and cost centres.
• Preparing and reconciling month-end accruals and prepayments, including departmental cost allocations.
• Managing purchase ledger, balance sheet and control account reconciliations, resolving outstanding differences within month-end deadlines.
• Ensuring intercompany charges, recharges and balances are accurately recorded and reconciled.
• Supporting monthly management reporting through cost schedules, variance analysis and corrective journals.
• Maintaining VAT compliance, robust payment controls and audit-ready financial records.
• Identifying opportunities to improve invoice processing, automation, purchase order matching and financial reporting procedures.
• Supporting, guiding and training team members while working closely with non-finance managers to resolve queries and improve financial accuracy.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a key finance function, contribute to improved financial controls and reporting, and make a real difference to the efficiency of the wider business.

Requirements

Are you an experienced finance professional with a strong background in Accounts Payable, purchase ledger management and month-end accounting?

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience managing or supervising an Accounts Payable or purchase ledger function.
• Strong hands-on experience with nominal ledger reconciliations and month-end cost accounting.
• A good understanding of accruals, prepayments, GRNI, intercompany accounting, VAT controls and cost-centre accounting.
• Experience using accounting systems and invoice processing or purchase order workflows.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables and reconciliations.
• AAT Level 4 qualification or equivalent practical experience.

Experience working within a multi-site or multi-entity business would be advantageous. Familiarity with Sage 200, Intact, Xero or QuickBooks, alongside ACCA or CIMA studies, would also be beneficial.

If you are a hands-on finance professional who enjoys taking responsibility, supporting a team and improving processes, we would be keen to hear from you.

What we offer

Salary: £40k

Other

Accounts Payable Manager / Ledger Control Location: Birmingham

Please note that due to the high level of applicants we are not able to respond to unsuccessful candidates, and if you have not been contacted within seven days please assume you have not been selected on this occasion. Zoom Recruitment Services Ltd is a specialist employment agency supplying permanent, temporary and contract staff within the Logistics, Manufacturing and Engineering sectors. We are also accredited members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and follow professional and ethical working procedures.