Head of Source-to-Pay

Your principal duties and responsibilities within this multifunctional role will include -

• Leading the charity's Procurement and Accounts Payable functions, ensuring services are effective, customer-focused, compliant and aligned to organisational priorities.
• Developing, implementing and continuously evolving the charity's Source-to-Pay strategy, supporting value for money, sustainability, risk management and the effective stewardship of charitable resources.
• Acting as the process owner for Source-to-Pay governance, maintaining effective policies, procedures and control frameworks, ensuring they remain proportionate, effective and fit for purpose.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, audit and internal control requirements, identifying and addressing areas of risk, control weakness or non-compliance.
• Providing strategic oversight of the Accounts Payable function, ensuring supplier invoices, expenses and payments are processed accurately, efficiently and in accordance with agreed controls and service standards.
• Using data, insight and performance information to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and value across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle.
• Leading, motivating, developing and supporting Procurement and Accounts Payable teams, creating a high performing and engaged culture.
  
  These are exciting times for the charity, and we have an excellent opportunity for a flexible and self-motivated individual with outstanding leadership, interpersonal and decision-making skills to join our busy Finance Department. As Head of Source-to-Pay, you will lead Procurement and Accounts Payable across The Donkey Sanctuary, ensuring the charity spends its resources responsibly, achieves value for money and maintains strong financial controls. The role is responsible for sourcing goods and services ethically and effectively, managing supplier relationships, overseeing payment processes and driving improvements across the end-to-end source-to-pay cycle. As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will contribute to the charity's strategic direction and operational success., MCIPS qualified (or equivalent professional experience).
• Significant experience of leading procurement within a complex and/or multi-site organisation.
• Experience of developing and delivering procurement and supplier management strategies.
• A strong understanding of Source-to-Pay processes, governance and financial controls, together with experience of leading Source-to-Pay transformation, automation or systems improvement programmes.
• Experience of leading Accounts Payable or a comparable transactional finance function.
• A proven track record of leading, developing and motivating high-performing teams.
• Strong commercial, negotiation and stakeholder management skills, and able to influence at a senior level.
  
  The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys worldwide. Our vision is a world where every donkey has a good quality of life, and our mission is to improve the lives of donkeys every day. We will achieve this by transforming the lives of donkeys in need worldwide by fostering greater understanding, collaboration and support, and by promoting lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships.
  
  Based in Sidmouth, Devon - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - this is a full-time, permanent contract starting as soon as possible, working 35 hours per week, 08.30-16.30, Monday-Friday.
This is a hybrid working position, combining onsite and home working under our guiding principles for such roles. The working pattern and requirement for site attendance will be agreed between the line manager and post-holder, currently anticipated to be an average of one day per week.,
• Competitive pension.
• Life assurance.
• BUPA private health cover.
• Sickness Income Protection.
• 31 days holiday (including Bank holidays), rising to 34 with each full year of service.
• Wellbeing team.
• Recorded Pilates and Yoga classes.
• Long service awards.
• Healthshield plan, including reimbursement of some medical expenses up to the specified limits per membership, offers, discounts and cashback on shopping, travel and entertainment from participating outlets and access to a 24/7 GP and counselling service.
• Free parking.
• Subsidised restaurant and shop.