Accounts Assistant - Sales Ledger

South Central Ambulance Service Nhs; Harwell; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Continual professional development

Occupational Health support

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Discounts

Job summary

South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Sales Ledger Assistant to join the finance team on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week). The role requires a calm, professional manner with attention to detail and good keyboard skills, working well within a team.

Main duties include inputting invoices, operating the sales ledger system, handling queries via phone and email, applying VAT per HMRC guidance, and executing credit control to ensure timely payments.

Qualifications

• Input of customers' invoices to the Trust’s computerised Finance.
• Operation of the sales ledger system.
• Dealing with and clearing customer’s telephone and email queries.
• Ensuring correct and appropriate treatment of VAT where allowable by HMRC guidance.
• Comprehensive credit control activities to ensure prompt receipt of payments.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining an efficient filing system for all sales documents
• Liaising with budget holders to resolve queries where required
• Ensuring timely flow of outstanding invoices from budget holders
• Ensuring appropriate coding and authorisation of all sales invoices
• Closure and reconciliation of monthly sales ledger and production of reports
• Assisting as required with miscellaneous office duties as directed by the Financial Services Manager, including assisting other areas of the Finance Department during periods of annual leave/staff absence.

Job description

Job overview

South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust is currently looking to recruit a full time (37.5 hours per week) Sales Ledger Assistant.

The successful applicant will will need to have a calm and professional manner, excellent attention to details, excellent keyboard skills and have the ability to work within a team environment

Main duties of the job

Input of customers' invoices to the Trust’s computerised Finance.

Operation of the sales ledger system.

Dealing with and clearing customer’s telephone and email queries.

Ensuring correct and appropriate treatment of VAT where allowable by HMRC guidance.

Comprehensive credit control activities to ensure prompt receipt of payments.

Working for our organisation

Benefits we offer:

• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.

About Us

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.

We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Maintaining an efficient filing system for all sales documents

Liaising with budget holders to resolve queries where required

Ensuring timely flow of outstanding invoices from budget holders

Ensuring appropriate coding and authorisation of all sales invoices

Closure and reconciliation of monthly sales ledger and production of reports

Assisting as required with miscellaneous office duties as directed by the Financial Services Manager, including assisting other areas of the Finance Department during periods of annual leave/staff absence.