About the role
We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Payables Officer to join our Finance team. This role is instrumental in maintaining accurate and secure supplier information while supporting the effective delivery of Accounts Payable services across multiple Councils within a Shared Service environment.
Working in a regulated public sector setting, you will play a key role in ensuring supplier records are managed in line with financial regulations, audit requirements, and fraud prevention controls. Your work will contribute directly to safeguarding public funds and maintaining trust in financial processes.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact michael.clarke@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and update supplier records with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ensure supplier data is compliant with financial regulations, audit standards, and internal controls
- Support the delivery of efficient and timely Accounts Payable services across partner Councils
- Apply robust verification and validation processes to mitigate fraud risks
- Collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers to resolve queries and maintain data integrity
- Contribute to continuous improvement of payables processes within the Shared Service function
About you
- Experience working in a finance or accounts payable environment, ideally within the public sector or a regulated organisation.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow processes and maintain accurate records.
- Understanding of financial controls, governance, and fraud prevention in a payables context.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues, suppliers, and stakeholders.
- IT literate, with experience of finance systems and Microsoft Office.
- Able to prioritise tasks and manage a high volume workload to meet deadlines.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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