Accounts Payable Specialist

Join us at WWF‑UK – Accounts Payable Specialist

Location: Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey

Contract: Permanent, Part time, 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week)

Hybrid working: Minimum 40% in person collaboration per month

We’re excited to be recruiting an Accounts Payable Specialist to join WWF‑UK’s Accounts Payable team within Accounting Operations. This role plays an important part in ensuring our financial processes run smoothly, supporting timely and accurate payments and helping colleagues and partners work effectively within our systems.

Reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, you will work closely with Treasury colleagues and teams across WWF‑UK, supporting the end-to-end processing of supplier invoices, grant payments and expenses. The role combines strong attention to detail with excellent stakeholder support, ensuring payments are accurate, well documented and aligned with organisational policies and procedures.

You will help manage a high-volume purchase ledger, respond to queries from colleagues and suppliers, and support the effective use of our purchase-to-pay and expenses systems. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working collaboratively, improving processes and contributing to a finance function that enables WWF‑UK’s mission.

You’ll bring the following skills and experience to succeed in this role:

• Proven experience working within an Accounts Payable or purchase ledger environment, ideally using a purchase-to-pay system.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to review invoices, reconcile supplier statements and maintain accurate financial records.
• Experience matching invoices to purchase orders and supporting payment processing activities.
• Confident communicator, able to respond to queries clearly and professionally with both internal colleagues and external suppliers.
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage a varied workload and prioritise effectively.
• Comfortable using finance systems and learning new processes quickly.
• Experience processing foreign currency payments.
• Experience working with systems such as Coupa or Business Central.
• Experience supporting credit card or expenses administration.

We believe in rewarding our team with more than just a salary. Here’s what you can expect:

• Annual leave starting at 26 days a year, rising one day each year to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options, to support your work life balance
• 7.5% employer contribution to pension, rising to 10% with employee contribution
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow
• Regular wellbeing initiatives to support your health and happiness.

This is a UK based contract, and you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer sponsorship and any offer of employment will be subject to evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.

This role is hybrid with a minimum 40% of your contracted hours spent at our beautiful UK head office, the Living Planet Centre in Woking, Surrey, where you’ll hot desk among trees and gardens.

We’re a global conservation charity with millions of supporters and hundreds of projects around the world.

At WWF‑UK, we’re bringing our world back to life. Protecting what’s left isn’t enough. We’re racing to restore nature and prevent catastrophic climate change. And it’s a race we can win with everyone’s help.

We’re courageous, passionate, and driven by science. For more than 60 years we’ve been at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife and the natural world. We work with integrity, collaboration and deep respect for those we partner with.

Click the link to apply via our website. You’ll be asked to complete an application form and upload your CV and a supporting statement that tells us why you’ll be a great addition to WWF‑UK.

At the heart of our mission is a simple truth: the planet needs everyone. That means you - in all your uniqueness, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or how you choose to express yourself.

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