Job Title: Finance and Accounts Payable Specialist Location: Manchester twice a week - rest remote. Contract Type: Contract Overview: We are seeking an experienced Finance and Accounts Payable Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in managing Purchase Ledger and commissioning processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior officers, Procurement, and Legal teams, providing robust support and improving financial processes. Key Responsibilities: Maintain the Purchase Ledger/Accounts Payable function, including raising purchase requisitions/purchase orders, logging invoices, processing approvals and payments, and goods receipting. Manage the commissioning (spend request) process, maintaining and updating the commissioning log, tracking new requests, and liaising with Procurement and Legal teams to ensure seamless progression. Monitor Finance email inboxes for queries, commission requests, and invoices, taking appropriate action to ensure timely resolution. Perform bank reconciliations, cost transfers, and banking journals in accordance with timetables. Prepare supplier payment runs, including journal entries and supporting documentation. Maintain up-to-date supplier information and verify bank details in line with internal requirements. Process invoice requests and raise invoices as needed. Undertake ad hoc finance activities to ..... full job details .....