Accounts Payable Supervisor

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
Peterborough
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Finance & Accounting
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SKILLS

Accounts Payable supervisory experience Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP) Reconciliation skills Team leadership Financial controls and compliance Organizational and problem-solving skills Invoice processing Payment run management

FULL DESCRIPTION

Accounts Payable Supervisor

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring an Accounts Payable Supervisor in Peterborough to lead a small AP team, oversee invoice processing, reconciliations, payment runs, and ensure financial controls. Requires supervisory experience, strong Excel skills, and attention to detail.

  • Reference: APSUPPBSW
  • Location: Peterborough

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Supervision

  • Supervise, support, and develop a small Accounts Payable team
  • Allocate workload effectively within a busy, deadline-driven environment
  • Provide training, coaching, and performance management
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls and company policies
  • Deputise for the Group Accounts Payable Manager in their absence
  • Assist with reporting, KPI monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Contribute to new system enhancements and process efficiencies

Accounts Payable

  • Oversee the end-to-end invoice processing cycle
  • Perform and review regular supplier statement reconciliations
  • Manage and review daily payment runs (BACS, CHAPS, international payments where applicable)
  • Ensure payments are made in accordance with agreed terms and internal procedures
  • Manage internal and external relationships and resolve invoice queries promptly
  • Oversee and process employee expense claims in line with company policy
  • Ensure timely submission and reconciliation of all corporate card statements, including month end reconciliation
  • Support month-end close activities relating to payables
  • Maintain robust financial controls across the AP function

Qualifications and Skills

Essential

  • Proven experience in an Accounts Payable supervisory role
  • Strong Excel skills (including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis and reconciliations)
  • Strong reconciliation skills with excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to lead and motivate a small team in a high transactional volume environment
  • Strong understanding of financial controls and compliance
  • Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills

Desirable

  • Experience within the legal sector or professional services environment
  • Exposure to system implementations or process improvement projects

Personal Attributes

  • Detail-oriented and methodical
  • Proactive and solutions-focused
  • Calm under pressure with the ability to prioritise effectively
  • Strong communicator with the ability to build relationships across departments
  • Collaborative and supportive leadership style

Company Core Values

  • Aspire: To challenge convention, an entrepreneur with energy for change. To be the best that we can be
  • Integrate: Bring together people and systems into a cohesive force
  • Innovate: To creatively evolve our working practices, use our revenue and resources in a virtuous cycle of improving our people, systems and growth
  • Commit: To delivering excellent client experience and working with integrity, investing in long term relationships, creating a strong market position and delivering sustained commercial advantage

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