Accounts Payable Assistant
Retail Finance – Accounts Payable | Handforth | Full‑time | Permanent | Hybrid
Are you looking to grow your finance career in a busy, friendly, and fast‑paced retail environment? Our Retail Finance team is looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join us and help keep our suppliers paid on time while delivering brilliant service across the business.
What you’ll be doing:
As an Accounts Payable Assistant, you’ll play a key role in managing the end‑to‑end AP process for your assigned vendors. Every day will be varied, and you’ll work closely with colleagues across the business to make sure invoices are processed accurately, issues are resolved quickly, and suppliers are paid to agreed terms.
You’ll also:
This is a role where accuracy, pace, and great communication really matter — and where your contribution helps keep the whole retail operation running smoothly.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
Why join us?
If you enjoy process-focused work, love getting things right first time, and want to be part of a business where behaviours and teamwork really matter, we’d love to hear from you.
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/
