Interim Accounts Payable Manager

The Role

• Oversee the day-to-day running of the Accounts Payable function, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and timely processing.
• Lead, support and develop the AP team, maintaining high standards of performance.
• Review existing processes, identify inefficiencies and implement improvements.
• Support wider finance transformation initiatives, including systems and process changes.
• Manage supplier relationships, resolve complex queries and ensure effective payment controls.
• Work closely with senior finance stakeholders to drive improvements across the function.
• Ensure robust controls, reconciliations and reporting procedures are maintained.

About You

We're looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager who can hit the ground running and make an immediate impact.

You'll ideally bring:

• Proven experience managing a busy, high-volume AP function.
• Strong people management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience supporting business transformation, systems improvements or process change.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• The ability to balance day-to-day operational responsibilities with longer-term improvements.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is more than just a business-as-usual AP management role. You'll have the opportunity to make a genuine difference within an organisation undergoing change, with the potential for the assignment to develop into a permanent position.