NHS

Bank Accounts Payable Assistant Band 2


PayCompetitive
LocationDartford/England
Employment typeOther

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  • Job Description

      Req#: C9277-25-0557?language=en&page=45&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are currently looking to recruit a bank staff member to its busy accounts payable. The Trust often makes £3m-£4m payments per week to suppliers and therefore the role is within a high paced team. The role will be to support the team in processing invoices, scanning invoices and using Excel to interrogate data from the Finance software.

      oResponsible for the prompt and accurate inputting, processing and scanning of supplier invoices.

      o Responsible for dealing with enquiries and payment queries from staff and suppliers, investigating queries and providing assistance and advice as required.

      o Responsible for opening and sorting the post for the finance department

      o Management of team mail box, sorting and distribution of work queue

      o Responsible for planning and prioritising own work to ensure that work is completed within financial timescales.

      o Works within clearly defined finance policies and procedures, work is managed rather than supervised.

      Main duties of the job

      Responsible for promptly inputting supplier invoices into the computerised purchase ledger finance system (Integra 2) ensuring that the data entered is accurate and valid.

      o Responsible for ensuring that supplier invoices have quoted valid Purchase Order number

      o Responsible for ensuring authorisation is in accordance with the Authorised Signatory Matrix.

      o Responsible for ensuring that supplier's invoices are processed in accordance with finance department procedures and standing financial instructions.

      Responsible for dealing promptly and courteously with telephone/email and written payment queries from suppliers and staff, investigating, analysing and resolving queries.

      o Responsible for reconciling the balance of invoices outstanding per supplier statements; investigating and analysing any differences.

      o Responsible for maintaining records of expenditure relating to the prior year (accruals) at the year end cut off point by inputting these on an excel spreadsheet.

      o Responsible for opening and sorting the post for the finance department.

      o Management of team mail box, sorting and distribution of work queue

      About us

      Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

      We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

      Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

      • We're Kind
      • We're
      • We Listen
      • We Care

      Date posted

      02 May 2025

      Pay scheme

      Agenda for change

      Band

      Band 2

      Salary

      £28,720 a year Pa Pro Rata incl HCAS

      Contract

      Bank

      Working pattern

      Flexible working

      Reference number

      277-BankAPA Band 2

      Job locations

      Pinewood House

      Oxleas NHS Trust

      Dartford

      DA2 7WG


      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      Responsible for promptly inputting supplier invoices into the computerised purchase ledger finance system (Integra 2) ensuring that the data entered is accurate and valid.

      Responsible for ensuring that supplier invoices have quoted valid Purchase Order number

      Responsible for ensuring authorisation is in accordance with the Authorised Signatory Matrix.

      Responsible for ensuring that suppliers invoices are processed in accordance with finance department procedures and standing financial instructions.

      Responsible for dealing promptly and courteously with telephone/email and written payment queries from suppliers and staff, investigating, analysing and resolving queries.

      Responsible for reconciling the balance of invoices outstanding per supplier statements; investigating and analysing any differences.

      Responsible for scanning (OneTouch) and filing invoices and other documentation as required.

      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      Responsible for promptly inputting supplier invoices into the computerised purchase ledger finance system (Integra 2) ensuring that the data entered is accurate and valid.

      Responsible for ensuring that supplier invoices have quoted valid Purchase Order number

      Responsible for ensuring authorisation is in accordance with the Authorised Signatory Matrix.

      Responsible for ensuring that suppliers invoices are processed in accordance with finance department procedures and standing financial instructions.

      Responsible for dealing promptly and courteously with telephone/email and written payment queries from suppliers and staff, investigating, analysing and resolving queries.

      Responsible for reconciling the balance of invoices outstanding per supplier statements; investigating and analysing any differences.

      Responsible for scanning (OneTouch) and filing invoices and other documentation as required.

      Person Specification

      Experience

      Desirable

      • Experience with Finance System (Integra 2)
      • Experience with Scanning Software (OneTouch)
      • Knowledge Of Microsoft Excel
      Person Specification

      Experience

      Desirable

      • Experience with Finance System (Integra 2)
      • Experience with Scanning Software (OneTouch)
      • Knowledge Of Microsoft Excel

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Pinewood House

      Oxleas NHS Trust

      Dartford

      DA2 7WG


      Employer's website

      http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Pinewood House

      Oxleas NHS Trust

      Dartford

      DA2 7WG


      Employer's website

      http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  • About the company

      National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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