Accounts Payable Officer, Cancer Research
£27.5-29.7k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Posted today
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Posted today
£27.5-29.7k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in an Accounts Payable department or a similar environment processing a high volume of invoices
- Background in handling supplier queries with clear communication and a strong customer-service approach when resolving queries
- Accurate and efficient data entry with high attention to detail
- Effective time management with demonstrable experience meeting KPIs/ SLAs with target
- IT literate with a proven ability to pick up financial systems quickly
What the job involves
- Reports to: Senior Finance Manager (Accounts Payable / Receivable)
- We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day
- But we need to go much further and much faster
- That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you
- Cancer Research UK’s Finance team’s credibility and professionalism in handling money fundraised by public generosity is essential to the smooth running and future ambitions of our organisation, ultimately helping the charity reach our goal of beating cancer
- We are searching for an Accounts Payable Officer with experience processing a high volume of payments, a keen eye for detail, and a great customer service to support the Finance team in maintaining strong Accounts Payable service levels
- This will involve processing c.50 invoices, c. 10 invoice queries a day, and other payment activities accurately and efficiently, ensuring that internal controls are adhered to and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are achieved
- This is an opportunity for an experienced Accounts Payable professional to be part of a collaborative team while supporting Cancer Research UK’s colleagues, suppliers, supporters, and other stakeholders with accounts payable queries, which is essential to the smooth running of our life-saving organisation
- Accurately processing a high volume of Purchase Order (PO) and Non-PO invoice transactions, non-staff expenses, and other Accounts Payable transactions in line with the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Overseeing the invoice matching process ensuring to manage any mismatches or discrepancies
- Ensuring all transactions are entered accurately and on time into the finance system
- Maintaining the Queries Log and ensuring any ongoing invoices queries are regularly followed up on
- Updating and maintaining the Non-Paid Staff Expenses tracker
- Regularly tracking and following up on invoice approvals
- Appropriately handling supplier invoice and payment queries while liaising with colleagues as appropriate
- Ensuring all supplier letters addressing problems, differences, and disputes are sent out automatically and followed up for resolution
- Reconciling all supplier statements ensuring accurate internal records
- Managing Accounts Payable enquiries from both Suppliers and End Users seeking support
- Ensuring helpdesk calls are logged, responded to, and are effectively resolved within agreed SLAs
- Supporting with weekly BACS and CHAPS payment runs in line with the agreed payment schedule
Application process
- End Date: June 20, 2025
- Interview date: From the week commencing 30 June2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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