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

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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Accounts Receivable Specialist


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

The role is required 9.00am to 3.00pm 4 days per week Tuesday - Friday.

This role will be carried out over 4 days a week, 5 hours 40 mins per day.


Interview Date:
To be advised


The Accounts Receivable Specialist main duties will be to:

  • Ensure the provision of high quality financial information on invoices and that they are accurate and timely.
  • Develop good working relationships internally and externally to the Finance department as well as Trust debtors.
  • Reconciling internal/third party statements to the Trust's ledger.
  • Complete regular tasks accurately and in line with the monthly and year end timetable, ensuring all invoices to be raised and updates to the ledger to reflect an accurate financial position.
  • When necessary raise rail and air travel tickets
  • Championing the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) at all times promoting principles of financial governance to Trustwide staff.


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 an
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