Bookkeeper

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Procare Health Limited (PHL) is the federation of the 19 Guildford and Waverley GP practices established in 2018, and now comprising four Primary Care Networks.

Having grown rapidly both in supporting our PCNs and in the clinical services we provide we are looking to grow our finance team, this role brings the opportunity to work autonomously but with support and development from our Finance Manager and Board.

This job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

This job description may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

Processing supplier invoices on Xero

Checking supplier statements monthly ensure all invoices are entered correctly on the ledger

Making payments to suppliers once all AML checks are completed

Raising sales invoices on Xero as required

Chasing unpaid sales invoices

Bank reconciliation on Xero and the ability to resolve outstanding queries

Reconciling petty cash

Complete claim forms to ICBs and councils for funding

Ensure all source documentation is attached to each Xero transaction.

Audit preparation

Preparing salary journal

Assisting with the production of the P&L

About Procare

Procare Health is the GP Federation for Guildford and Waverley. Our aim is to support General Practice to work at scale in order to achieve efficiencies of scale whilst respecting the autonomy of individual General Practices. This includes working with other local healthcare providers to develop and provide health services to the benefit of our patients.

Procare has grown out of this new drive for integration. We help member practices to work together to jointly address issues which are difficult to resolve individually and offer expertise and skills individual practices find uneconomic to employ. By working at scale, we can ensure the projects we take forward on behalf of our members will allow patients in our area to have more consistency in, as well as choices about, their care.

Procare PATIENT Values Framework:

Person centred care with a client centred focus

Achieves clinical excellence, and inspires others

Teamwork, working together in an integrated environment because everybody matters

Integrity, in all that we do

Experiences, are used for quality improvement and continuous learning

New ideas, for clinically and cost-effective care

Takes care of self, our own personal wellbeing is paramount

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised and current bookkeeping/accounting qualification

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in a finance team
• Demonstrable experience in bookkeeping
• Experience of trial balance and P&L reconcilations
• Experience of managing intercompany accounts would be advantageous.

Skills, Knowledge and Attributes

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge on Xero and Excel
• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills
• Strong communication
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Self-motivated and can-do attitude
• Resilient
• Honest
• Flexibility
• Commercial awareness
• Present a professional approach at all times
• Personable and approachable
• Respect for all with a commitment to equality and diversity
• Disciplined and organised, with the ability to work under pressure and manage own time
• Discreet when dealing with confidential information

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

Procare Health Limited

Address

Haslemere District Hospital

Church Lane

Haslemere

Surrey

GU27 2BJ

Employer's website

https://www.procarehealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)