Finance Officer Accounts Payable

Finance Officer Accounts Payable.

Salary: £26,500 per annum.

Location: Watford. (Hybrid working with 1 day in the office -Wednesday).

Contract: Fixed term Contract- 12 months, 35 hours per week.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service, and the option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts across 15,000 national retailers.

Why Action for Children?

Every child should have a loving home, food, warmth, the chance to grow and learn - the support to cope with life’s challenges. But too many children don’t. By bringing your passion and unique skills and experience, you’ll help us change that where it really matters.

We've been driven by love to take action for children for over 150 years, giving them the protection and practical help they need. A lot’s changed since 1869. But what children really need, hasn’t. So as long as children need us, we’ll be here.

A bit about the role

Finance Officer Accounts Payable role is a Fixed Term Contract for 12 months working on a Hybrid basis with 1 day per week (Wednesday) in the Watford Office.

In this role you will assume direct responsibility for critical tasks for controlling expenditure through the end-to-end accounts payable process for a range of suppliers, applying and instilling Best Practice into the process and work to ensure the robustness and reliability of the processes.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Leading the maintenance of the account’s payable ledger for designated suppliers.
• Ensure the Purchase Order process is adhered to, liaising with procurement colleagues and suppliers where the process requires improving.
• Lead the enforcement of anti-fraud controls in relation to purchasing activities and the enforcement of prescribed controls over the function to ensure that only valid commitments to spend and payments are made by Action for Children.
• Lead the processing and controls over weekly BACS run and ensure Fostering payments are processed timely and accurately.
• Lead the reconciliation of the account’s payable ledger.
• Produce and present all relevant KPI’s for the Accounts Payable & Purchase Card Manager.

Let's talk about you

• Studying for or will hold an entry level Accounting Qualification.
• Prior experience of working within and supporting a finance function.
• Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping.
• Experience of working on Oracle Fusion.
• Experience of working invoice matching processes.
• Previous demonstrable training on fraud prevention.
• Intermediate Excel Skills.
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills.
• Excellent numeracy and literacy.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates, as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

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Closing Date: Monday 6th July 2026.

Interviews will be undertaken by MS Teams week commencing 13th July 2026.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.