Ap Specialist - Huyton, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Huyton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An opportunity has arisen for the role of Accounts Payable Specialist, acting as a key member of the Treasury Services team based within Finance at Knowsley Community College.

Interview Date:
To be confirmed

The Accounts Payable Specialist main duties will be to:

Working with a code book to ensure accurate financial coding for transactions
Keep working papers to support all processed transactions
Reconciling statements to Trust ledger system
Develop good working relationships internally and externally to the Finance department.
Championing the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) at all times promoting principles of financial governance to Trustwide staff. Ensuring compliance with internal/external audit recommendations and financial procedures.
Complete regular tasks accurately and in line with the monthly and yearly timetable.
Ensure most effective use of the Trust's financial resources, including assisting with NFI exercise to help to reduce fraud.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year
HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas;

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate and inclusive
Providing a safe environment for staff

Accounting and control

Taking responsibility for accurate financial coding for transactions.
Keeping complete and auditable records and working papers in support of all processed transactions.
Monitoring and analysing transactions, and updating various spreadsheet reconciliations.
Reconciling internal/third party statements to the Trust's ledger system.
Identifying transactions requiring inclusion in the Trust's accounts within the correct financial period.
Monitoring and investigating queries and discrepancies which may arise from internal or external sources and creating detailed explanations regarding any variances.
Ensuring that certain accounts are reconciled and tracked. Reviewing and taking timely action to ensure that necessary actions are implemented in order to maintain effective financial control.
Assisting in the financial month end process, ensuring that necessary monthly adjustments / accruals are completed in delegated areas of responsibility.

Other duties

Assisting in the quarterly Agreement of Balances processes with other NHS bodies.
Assisting in the production of the Trust's statutory Annual Accounts and other yearend financial returns, adhering to appropriate guidelines and accounting standards.
Championing the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) at all times promoting principles of financial governance to Trustwide staff. Ensuring compliance with internal/external audit recommendations and financial procedures.
Undertaking benchmarking or other research work to underpin CPD and departmental improvement.
Safeguarding Trust resources collecting monies due, paying out monies owed in a timely and accurate manner contributing to effective purchasing and credit control processes.
Completing ad hoc financial accounts project work, appropriate to band, as delegated by managers.

Communication

Responding to adhoc Finance management queries in a timely and accurate manner, including the servicing of audit and NFI requests.
Providing operational advice to directors, senior managers, project managers and other operational staff on matters such as invoices and payments (via documents and/or verbally).
Providing exemplarycustomer serviceto customers / suppliers / patients / staff / donors.
Referring more complex matters to colleagues as appropriate, with timeliness and discretion, and following up on responses.

Team interaction and self-management

Checking own work for accuracy and to ensure any adjustments have been entered into the ledger correctly, making any amendments as necessary.
Managing own time in accordan