Finance Assistant Subsidiaries; UPL invoicing

Job Overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.

• Manage and process invoices received by the Pharmacy department efficiently and accurately within the CMM (JAC) system, ensuring they are routed for approval or receipting as required.
• Resolve invoice holds and queries from budget holders, pharmaceutical teams, finance colleagues and suppliers regarding invoice queries and budget statements.
• Provide support to pharmaceutical procurement and the Transactions team (AP), to ensure accurate weekly payment runs are made to suppliers on time.
• Reconcile supplier statements and liaise with colleagues to resolve outstanding debt, following up via phone and e-mail.
• Maintain spreadsheets, databases and input financial data, following agreed procedures and helping to improve processes where appropriate.
• Plan and prioritise your workload to meet daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
• Provide daily administrative support to allow the team to fulfil its role on a day-to-day basis.
• Raise invoices within the Oracle financial system under the direction of the supervisor.
• Be responsible, under the guidance of the Management Accountant/Senior Subsidiary Accountant, for journal input to the ledger system to ensure accurate monthly reporting.
• Assist the Management Accountant/Senior Subsidiary Accountant in the production of regular monthly management reports.
• Investigate financial queries as requested by budget managers or Subsidiary finance Teams. This includes issues about payment of invoices, payroll queries and coding issues. Undertakes calculations, some of which may be complex, to be able to resolve discrepancies and issues.

Essential criteria:

• AAT intermediate level / NVQ Level 3
• GCSEs (grades 9-5; A*-C) including Mathematics and English or equivalent experience
• Some knowledge of finance procedures e.g. petty cash, systems, VAT

Desirable criteria:

• Previous experience of clerical, finance or customer service work
• Experience in processing invoices, including handling queries

• Admin and clerical skills
• Data analysis

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.