Finance Assistant

Job summary

Vernova Healthcare CIC are looking to appoint an experienced, forwarding thinking and reliable Finance & Administration Assistant.

Based from Waters Green Medical Centre in Macclesfield you will be responsible for the coordination and processing of ledger entries, ensuring transactions are posted accurately to the accounting systems.

The successful candidate will have recent experience in a similar role and have a good working knowledge of Sage Line 50 and/or similar accountancy package such as Xero.

If you have outstanding attention to detail, can demonstrate excellent IT skills and have the ability to prioritise a busy workload then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Finance - Key Responsibilities

• Make ledger entries and ensure all transactions are posted correctly to the accounting system
• Process purchase invoices to be ready for payment authorisation before the payment due date and subsequently produce remittance advice notes and send these to suppliers
• Respond to finance queries from both internal and external stakeholders
• Raise sales invoices and issue these to customers
• Monitor customer accounts for non-payment and delayed payment
• Review and correct transaction entries as necessary
• Reconcile bank statements and bring books to trial balance stage and assist with the provision of monthly management accounts
• Perform finance administrative duties including filing, copying and scanning
• Manage petty cash and keep accurate records of all cash transactions
• Take receipt of cheques, ensure that accurate records are kept, and that cheques are deposited at the bank

About us

Vernova Healthcare is a Social Enterprise provider of primary care and community-based healthcare services within Eastern Cheshire. We are owned by all 17 GP practices within the East locality in Cheshire ICB. This allows us to to work with general practice in a truly integrated way.

Due to retirement, we are looking to appoint an experienced Finance and Administration Assistant to join our small friendly finance team.

Hours of work would ideally be 30 hours, flexibility can be offered in relation to working days and times.

In addition to a competitive salary, we can also offer a pleasant and supportive work environment alongside 25 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays (pro-rata). Vernova Healthcare is also an employing authority for the NHS Pension Scheme.

We do reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient numbers of applicants, as such we would recommend interested candidates to apply at the soonest opportunity.