Surgical Manager

About The Role
Do you want to make a real difference and help people with sight loss live the life they choose? We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Manager to lead our Payable Team and ensure that suppliers, employees, and volunteers are paid accurately and on time.
As Accounts Payable Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the Accounts & Canine Health Payable Team. You will ensure compliance with procedures, maintain high standards of accuracy, and support the organisation’s financial operations. This is a key role in optimising cash flow and delivering exceptional service to internal and external stakeholders.
You will manage and coach the Accounts & Canine Health Payable Team, carrying out quarterly performance reviews and supporting their professional growth. Working closely with the Financial Controller, you will keep procedures and documentation up to date, ensuring compliance and identifying cost-saving opportunities. You will oversee the timely and accurate processing of purchase invoices, veterinary invoices, expenses, and petty cash, collaborating with the National Dog Welfare Team where needed. You will also manage payment runs, payroll, foreign currency transactions, and ad hoc payments, ensuring accuracy and optimising cash flow. In addition, you will ensure clinical health data is accurately input into Salesforce/GDI-r and resolve any exceptions promptly.
To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience in managing an Accounts Payable function
• Strong leadership and coaching skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams while managing multiple priorities
• Knowledge of financial systems and processes (experience with Salesforce/GDI-r would be an advantage)
  Join us and be part of a passionate team committed to making a positive impact. We offer a supportive environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to contribute to a meaningful cause.
  This role will be based at our Reading office a minimum of 2 days per week, working closely with the team. You’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
  No two people with sight loss are the same, and none of our people are either. So, we are proud to offer a range of person-centred benefits that can support each member of staff in ways that really mean something to them – and show them how much they mean to us. We offer a flexible benefits package, discounts and cashback scheme, a generous holiday allowance and matched contributory pension scheme to care for our people.
  About Us
  Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
  Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality.
  As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.
  If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.
  Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.
  Safeguarding
  Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
  At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.
  Guide Dogs follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.
  For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.