About The Role
This role is a 6-month fixed term contract position.
What if you could grow your experience in finance at one of the UK's leading charities while gaining hands-on experience and mentorship from experienced finance professionals? You'll be part of a team that keeps our supplier payments and procurement processes running smoothly, enabling the organisation to deliver life-changing support to people affected by dementia.
About the opportunity
As an Accounts Assistant focusing on Purchase to Pay, you'll play an important role in delivering a high-performing, efficient financial transactions operation with partnership and improvement at its core. This is a 6-month fixed-term contract offering valuable operational experience and the opportunity to develop your finance skills through mentorship and on-the-job learning.
You'll be part of our Finance & Assurance directorate, reporting to the Purchase to Pay Officer and working alongside other assistants and trainees. Focusing specifically on Purchase to Pay activities, you'll gain broad experience across supplier management, invoice processing, and payment operations. From recording and processing financial transactions to supporting month-end and year-end processes, you'll monitor daily communications and role-model brilliant partnership and customer service, support reconciliations and audits, and work in an agile way across multiple projects and workstreams.
This is a role where your success is built on strong collaboration across multiple teams. You'll have opportunities to undertake specific improvement projects, identify ways to enhance processes, and support colleagues across the organisation to operate within best practice when it comes to financial transactions.
About you
You're someone with a willingness to learn and develop on the job, sharing your learnings with colleagues to foster whole-team development. You have a working interest in quality improvement and an enthusiasm for a career in finance with ideas to help us constantly improve. You have experience with problem-solving, preferably in a financial environment, and you're willing to proactively reach across to colleagues in different teams.
You'll have:
1. Willingness to learn and develop on the job, sharing those learnings with colleagues.
2. Working interest in quality improvement in processes, analysis, communications, or customer service, and experience supporting it.
3. Enthusiasm for a career in finance and ideas to help us constantly improve.
4. Experience of problem-solving, preferably in a financial environment, and willingness to proactively reach across to colleagues in different teams.
5. Good grasp of data and how it can be analysed and presented to improve understanding, engagement, and performance.
6. Experience of processing invoices, managing supplier records, or similar financial administration tasks.
What you'll focus on:
7. Processing purchase requisitions, goods receipting, supplier invoices and supporting payment preparation in line with internal procedures.
8. Monitoring and responding to daily communications from colleagues and role-modelling brilliant partnership and customer service.
9. Recording, processing, and filing financial transactions, including completing reconciliations and supporting audits.
10. Liaising with suppliers and other third parties to resolve queries and maintain positive relationships.
11. Assisting with month-end and year-end closing processes and supporting the Purchase to Pay Officer with reports and analysis.
12. Identifying ways to improve processes and supporting colleagues across the organisation to operate within best practice for financial transactions.
Could your enthusiasm for finance and quality improvement help strengthen our Purchase to Pay operations? Are you ready to develop your skills through hands-on experience and mentorship in an environment where learning and collaboration are valued? If you're looking for a role where development meets meaningful purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Important Dates
The deadline for applications is Friday 12th December 2025, 23:59
Interviews will take place on W/C 15th December 2025
About You
About Alzheimer's Society
Share