Accounts Payable Manager

Posting date:	20 April 2026
Salary:	£33,350 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 May 2026
Location:	KT15 3LS
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	453910/1

Summary

About the VMD

You may not have heard of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), but have you ever:

• eaten meat, eggs, fish or honey
• drunk milk
• owned a pet or animal
• taken antibiotics

If you said yes to any of the above, you are directly affected by what the VMD does.

The VMD is the regulatory and policy lead responsible for issues concerning the authorisation, use, and manufacture of veterinary medicines in the UK.

Our aim is to protect public health, animal health, and the environment, and promote animal welfare by assuring the safety, quality and effectiveness of veterinary medicines.

Find out more at: About us - Veterinary Medicines Directorate - GOV.UK

About the Job

The Accounts Payable Manager plays a key role within the VMD finance team, main responsibilities include ensuring the accurate and timely processing of purchase invoices & employee expenses, managing the end-to-end purchase order process, completing month-end processes, and providing support during interim and final audit of VMD Annual Report and Accounts.

The role will have line manager responsibility for 1 AO.

The role will report to the Financial Operations Lead.

Main duties and responsibilities are :

• overseeing the processing of purchase invoices & staff expenses.
• processing weekly payment runs, including payments.
• reconciling daily bank statements.
• managing the end-to-end purchase order process.
• maintaining supplier and staff details in Sage X3.
• other adhoc tasks including month end and audit support.
• complying with ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (information security) standards, and GDPR and Information Management requirements.
• act corporately – meeting, role-modelling, embedding, and championing the corporate objectives set by the VMD.

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