Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Accounts Payable Supervisor

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Job summary

To ensure Accounts Payable documentation is processed accurately and promptly enabling the Trust to pay all monies due in line with NHS payment policy.

To manage Accounts Payable staff and provide relevant training on all areas of the accounts payable process.

To ensure the segregation of duties between input staff and payment processing.

To set up new suppliers on the ledger by the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.

Effective management of the Trust's purchase ledger

Main duties of the job

o Manages the Accounts Payable team ensuring that the department's targets are met, giving advice and guidance to the Accounts Payable section to ensure maximum efficiency without the need for referral to management.

o Ensures that the Standing Financial Instructions, internal office procedures, audit requirements and the Better Payment Practice Code are adhered to at all times.

o Communicates with members of the Technical Accounts department to ensure accurate administration of payments and maintenance of the purchase ledger system.

o Communicates with external suppliers resolving any queries that they may have.

o Resolves queries and offers advice and guidance to the Accounts Payable Assistants.

o Significant data input via VDU for most of the working day, ensuring accurate and timely information recording, involving periods of prolonged concentration.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

13 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

270-TF710-CORP

Job locations

St Mary’s Hospital

London Road

Kettering, Northamptonshire

NN15 7PW

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Foundation Level AAT Qualification or equivalent Experience
NVQ3 in Finance or Equivalent Experience

Experience

Essential

Experience and understanding of Finance process
Experience and understanding of NHS VAT rules
Experience of managing Accounts Payable team
Experience in resolving Accounts Payable issues and reconciling AP accounts
Competent IT user including MS Office software

Experience

Desirable

Experience of working in NHS or Public Sector environment

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Foundation Level AAT Qualification or equivalent Experience
NVQ3 in Finance or Equivalent Experience

Experience

Essential

Experience and understanding of Finance process
Experience and understanding of NHS VAT rules
Experience of managing Accounts Payable team
Experience in resolving Accounts Payable issues and reconciling AP accounts
Competent IT user including MS Office software

Experience

Desirable

Experience of working in NHS or Public Sector environment

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.