Accounts Assistant

Tenzing Health; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in the West Midlands is seeking a finance professional to handle accounts payable, process payments, and manage cash flow. The role involves raising invoices, tracking payments, and providing financial support to the team. Candidates should be flexible and proactive in their approach. Join a successful team and contribute to timely and accurate financial services.

Responsibilities

• Ensure creditors are paid according to payment terms.
• Process bank payments to employees and suppliers.
• Track funds received and determine payment distribution.
• Raise invoices and manage accounts receivable.
• Minimise overdue debt through credit control.

Job description

Overview

Working within a successful team you will deliver a consistent, efficient, timely and accurate service in the following areas.

Responsibilities

• Accounts payable, ensuring creditors are paid in accordance with the payment terms
• Process bank payments to employees, locums and suppliers
• Track funds received and determine payment distribution
• Accounts receivable, raise customer invoices and send to customers
• Raise invoices to recharge costs as necessary
• Create and submit claims
• Credit control, minimising overdue debt
• Posting journals
• Bank reconciliation
• Cash flow, ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank accounts to cover all planned expenditure
• Assisting with the preparation of Quarterly Management Accounts
• Payroll and Pensions processing
• Liaise with Operations teams, when receiving critical data, to ensure finance deadlines are met
• Ensure telephones are managed and answered in a timely manner and act as the point of contact for financial matters
• Plan, organise and manage your own workload to ensure that financial processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner
• Assist in the production of financial reports as required, preparation of spreadsheets and correspondence as required including end of year procedures
• To work to deadlines and respond in a flexible way to the changing demands of the organisation, including ensuring that customers are responded to promptly and professionally
• Provide all aspects of generic administrative support and financial support to Team members, Staff, Managers, and Directors as directed, and keep them informed of work in progress
• To attend and participate in team meetings, training courses, and appraisals punctually and well prepared, as appropriate and when required
• To attend and participate in Profit and Loss meetings, held with non-financial managers and Clinical Directors, providing support as necessary
• Any other duties that may be deemed appropriate to this role; be proactive, seeking work from the Head of Finance when your own areas of responsibility have dissipated, remaining flexible to take on any tasks as requested
• To complete tasks and objectives that are outlined in your own personal objectives