Accounts Payable Officer - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Our Finance department has a fantastic opportunity for an Accounts Payable Officer to join its warm and friendly team in a role carrying out various tasks relating to the maintenance of the Accounts Payable ledger, ensuring adherence to approved policies and procedures.

Your role will involve processing invoices, matching orders to invoices and resolving queries relating to invoices, dealing with suppliers and service line managers and other internal members of staff, therefore well-developed interpersonal and communication skills are essential as is the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

You will require an approachable personality, good attention to detail, good computer skills and the ability to work without the need for direct supervision.

Your role will involve a supporting the review of Scanned documents ensuring accuracy of the scanned image and register all invoices onto the accounts payable system, investigating statements, credit notes, discounts etc.

identifying and implementing the correct actions to take and matching invoices with orders on the electronic ordering system in accordance with procedures and working practices where auto match has failed.

You will also investigate what has caused the auto match to fail, register and input invoices, credit notes and payment requests into the
accounts payable system in accordance with approved policies and

procedures and review invoices for payment, ensuring the VAT has been properly identified and reclaimed, the invoice has been correctly coded and authorised and is arithmetically correct.

you will be responsible for receiving and processing manual payment request form in line with relevant policies and procedure, dispatching manual remittance advices to suppliers and will perform other duties as requested by the Financial Services Manager to ensure the team continues to operate effectively.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Are you ready to help and support our Finance department, then we want to hear from you?

Please see the attached JD for further details of this exciting role.