Location: We welcome applications from those looking for hybrid working, based 2 days per week in our Handforth (Cheshire) Office
About the Role
As our Accounts Payable Team Leader, you’ll lead a team of five colleagues, including two remote team members, driving a consistent and high-quality service across our finance operations. With at least two years’ experience managing people and five or more years in Accounts Payable, you’ll bring both strong leadership and technical expertise. You’ll play a key role in connecting teams across the business and with our suppliers, ensuring a smooth and efficient end-to-end experience for our Support Office and Practice Owners (PO’s), while identifying opportunities to evolve and strengthen how we work.
Key Responsibilities
About You
You’ll bring strong experience within Accounts Payable, including day-to-day people management, and be confident supporting and motivating a team while balancing competing priorities. You’ll have a solid understanding of finance ERP systems, ideally SAP S/4 HANA, and be comfortable using these to support efficient, accurate processes. With a natural ability to build relationships, you’ll work effectively with stakeholders across the business who interact with the purchasing process, ensuring a collaborative and seamless approach. You’ll also be comfortable providing holiday cover for our locum team when needed, demonstrating flexibility and teamwork. Experience of managing remote team members would be beneficial, and you’ll be confident leading and engaging colleagues regardless of location. Organised and solutions-focused, you’ll be able to manage multiple demands while maintaining a high standard of delivery.
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.
Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
