Accounts Payable Specialist

Accounts Payable Specialist

Job reference: REQ000940

£18,287pa + excellent benefits

Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL/Hybrid Working

Join us at WWF-UK – Accounts Payable Specialist

Contract: Permanent, Part time Hybrid working: Minimum 40% in person collaboration per month

About the role

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.

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

Essential

·       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.                       

·       Intermediate Excel skills.

Desirable

·       Experience processing foreign currency payments.

·       Experience working with systems such as Coupa or Business Central.

·       Experience supporting credit card or expenses administration

What we offer                                                                                                                                                                              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.

About WWF-UK

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.

How to apply                                                                                                                                                                        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.

 Application closing date: 01/03/2026

Our Diversity Promise to You                                                                                                                                                 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.

We don’t do stereotypes. We work together with purpose, driven by passion and enhanced by respect, courage, and integrity. We pull together from all walks of life to fight for a better future, and we want you to feel supported every step of the way.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.

So, if there’s anything we can do to make your application or interview experience more comfortable or accessible, just give our Talent Acquisition Team a shout via our website

Safeguarding Commitment                                                                                                                                                 Just as we celebrate diversity in all its forms, we are equally dedicated to creating a safe environment for every person we work with or encounter.

Our commitment extends to children, adults at risk, and individuals experiencing any form of vulnerability, whether temporary or permanent.

We proudly stand behind CAPSEAH (Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment) and put this commitment into action through clear policies, thorough training, and recruitment checks tailored to each role, which may include external vetting.

If you ever have a concern, however big or small, know that there are confidential channels ready to support you at WWF-UK. We promise to respond promptly and with care, because protecting every individual is at the heart of everything we do.