Bank Creditors Manager

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Job summary

A leading healthcare Trust is seeking a Finance professional to manage its Accounts Payable section. The role involves overseeing payment processes, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting, and managing a small team. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in finance and excellent computer skills, particularly in Excel. The Trust offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development and a range of NHS benefits.

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

On-site Nurseries

On-site staff cafes

On-site parking

Support in career development

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Studying or partly qualified in a recognised accountancy qualification.
• Experience of working within an accounts payable section for at least 5 years.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Trust's Accounts Payable section and team.
• Ensure timely and accurate inputting and distribution of invoices.
• Responsible for weekly payment runs to suppliers.

Skills

Customer Focus

Financial Reporting

Team Management

Excel

Education

AAT Technician level

NVQ 4/5

Tools

Oracle Financials

Microsoft Office

Job description

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

Established in 1998 from the merger of Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals, the Trust has been on a long journey of development and improvement to its current position as the largest provider of acute hospital services to Surrey residents. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in the boroughs of Runnymede, Spelthorne, Woking and parts of Elmbridge, Hounslow, Surrey Heath and beyond. The Trust employs around 4,400 individual members of staff. Our turnover was £425 million in 2021/22.

The Trust provides a whole range of services across its hospital sites. The majority of planned care, like day case and orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation services, is provided at Ashford Hospital, with more complex medical and surgical care and emergency services at St. Peters Hospital.

A history of both hospitals can be found by clicking here .

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Key details

Location

SiteAshford HospitalAddressLondon RoadTownAshford, SurreyPostcodeTW15 3AAMajor / Minor RegionSurrey

Contract type & working pattern

Contract1 month (Bank - ongoing bank work)Hours37.5 hours per week (Bank)

• Full time
• Part time
  
  

Salary

GradeNHS AfC: Band 6

Specialty

Main areaFinance

Job Overview

The postholder will be responsible for the management of the Trusts Accounts Payable section and Team and will therefore be involved in identifying and implementing best practice as regards to the payment processes throughout the Finance Directorate and across the Trust. The postholder will be required to support the department through the provision of financial information for inclusion within monthly internal and external reports (e.g., Better Payment Practice Code) and relevant statutory returns (e.g. Agreement of Balances).

Timely and accurate inputting and distribution of invoices and credit notes in accordance with timetables and to maximise the Trusts reporting of expenditure, also minimising duplicate payments. Prompt resolution of account holder queries so that outstanding debts do not build up unnecessarily.

The postholder will be one of two staff working in a creditors section that posts and pays invoices from suppliers for the provision of goods and services to the Trust. As the section receives a high volume of calls the postholder will be expected to have a good customer focus as they will be dealing with suppliers and fellow Trust staff at all levels both on the telephone and possibly face to face.

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Responsibility for the provision of high quality creditor payments services and day to day planning to ensure deadlines are met and work load is managed. This includes the recruitment and management of one staff member and the assessment of their training and development needs

The post holder will be expected to use the Trusts Finance and Procurement systems (SBS Oracle) after training , as well as Microsoft Office (Excel, Word). The post has a high keyboard content.

Ensure that invoices and credit notes allocated to the postholder are not duplicates of previously processed documents and that they are properly calculated (i.e. unit cost x price = value) and also that the correct VAT charge has been applied.

Responsibility for weekly payment runs to suppliers ensuring that system outputs are correct. Liaise with the Head of Financial Services to ensure funds are available to meet payment runs, amending the value of payment runs as necessary and identifying and prioritising payments which if not made will be detrimental to the Trust.

Responsible for the completion of information for monthly finance reports/reconciliations, Annual Accounts, and other ad-hoc reports as required. This requires good knowledge of Excel as the postholder will be expected to use some advanced functionality

Co-ordinate for the Trust the national month 9 and month 12 NHS expenditure and creditor balances reconciliation exercises, liaising with other Trusts, ICBs and NHS Bodies as necessary.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
  
  

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Person Specification. The main duties of the role are outlined above.

Applicant requirements

info The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Studying or partly qualified in a recognised accountancy qualification (e.g. AAT Technician level or NVQ 4/5) or willing to undertake such training.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working within an accounts payable section for at least 5 years and of staff supervisory work in a finance department of at least two years
• Experience of producing high-level financial information, reports and analyses in accordance with NHS finance policies and other financial legislation
• High level of computer literacy and experience of computerised financial systems, Excel and Word.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Prior experience with Oracle Financials software
  
  

Documents

• Creditors Manager (, 409.4)PDFKB
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

NameNicky GhahraiJob titleInterim Director of Operational FinanceEmail address [email protected]Telephone number01932755855