SW Healthcare

Accounts Assistant

The closing date is 24 September 2025

Job summary

Are you a highly organised, detail driven and ready to play a key role in a busy finance team?

We're looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our successful team, where you'll help ensure smooth and accurate financial processes that keep our organisation moving.In this varied role, you'll be at the heart of our finance operations.We're looking for someone who is experienced in accounts, with payroll knowledge, meticulous with numbers but also adaptable and proactive when priorities shift and a confident communicator with strong customer service skills, able to handle queries with professionalism and tact.If you're ready to bring your finance skills to a role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you.

The successful postholder will work remotely, as well as being required to attend our office in Redditch for team office days and as per the needs of the business. Working Wednesdays and Fridays is essential with flexibility for working pattern across remainder of week.Interviews will be held week commencing 6th October.

Main duties of the job

In this varied role, you'll be at the heart of our finance operations. From managing accounts payable and receivable, credit control and bank reconciliations, to supporting payroll, pensions and management accounts you'll be hands-on in ensuring our financial systems run like clockwork. You'll also work closely with colleagues across the organisation, providing excellent support and clear communication to both financial and non-financial staff.

About us

Vertis Health is a fast-growing provider of community-based healthcare services to NHS patients within South Worcestershire. The organisation utilises the excellent clinical expertise that already resides within the local NHS environment and harnesses it with efficient administration pathways to provide patients with more convenient and accessible services. We hope that by doing this we will not only deliver pathway improvements to patients but also go some way to relieving the growing volume pressures that are being experienced within local hospitals and GP practices.

Date posted

10 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£26,530 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0158-25-0081

Job locations

38 Kenilworth Close

Redditch

Worcestershire

B97 5JX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working within a successful team you will deliver a consistent, efficient, timely and accurate service in the following areas.

Accounts payable, ensuring creditors are paid in accordance with the payment terms

Process bank payments to employees, locums and suppliers

Track funds received and determine payment distribution

Accounts receivable, raise customer invoices and send to customers

Raise invoices to recharge costs as necessary

Create and submit claims

Credit control, minimising overdue debt

Posting journals

Bank reconciliation

Cash flow, ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank accounts to cover all planned expenditure

Assisting with the preparation of Quarterly Management Accounts

Payroll and Pensions processing

Liaise with Operations teams, when receiving critical data, to ensure finance deadlines are met

Ensure telephones are managed and answered in a timely manner and act as the point of contact for financial matters

Plan, organise and manage your own workload to ensure that financial processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner

Assist in the production of financial reports as required, preparation of spreadsheets and correspondence as required including end of year procedures

To work to deadlines and respond in a flexible way to the changing demands of the organisation, including ensuring that customers are responded to promptly and professionally.

Provide all aspects of generic administrative support and financial support to Team members, Staff, Managers, and Directors as directed, and keep them informed of work in progress.

To attend and participate in team meetings, training courses, and appraisals punctually and well prepared, as appropriate and when required.

To attend and participate in Profit and Loss meetings, held with non-financial managers and Clinical Directors, providing support as necessary

Any other duties that may be deemed appropriate to this role; be proactive, seeking work from the Head of Finance when your own areas of responsibility have dissipated, remaining flexible to take on any tasks as requested.

To complete tasks and objectives that are outlined in your own personal objectives