Purchase to Pay Assistant

Can you work under pressure, deliver to deadlines and work on concurrent tasks?

Have you got experience in Microsoft Excel and Word?

Are you proactive approach to problem solving & issue resolution?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This role sits within the Financial Transactions team and supports the Purchase to Pay (P2P) Lead. The role involves providing support to a range of stakeholders to ensure compliance across financial processes, in line with Government requirements. The role will focus on Purchase to Pay responsibilities, including supplier master data fraud checking; purchase order (PO) and invoice processing, queries and verifications;
Travel and Subsistence (T&S) claims and Government Procurement card (GPC) queries and compliance checks; and data cleansing.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at MCA.

The purpose of the Purchase to Pay Finance Assistant is to assist the P2P Lead in ensuring that all transactions are processed in accordance with the MCA’s policies, procedures, and controls. Support the work of the regions and other business areas whilst liaising with Unity Business Services (UBS) as necessary. Help resolve pro-actively any MCA queries with the Shared Services provider UBS.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Input, review and approve Supplier master data within the accounting system in a timely manner, ensuring all fraud checks have been completed.
• Resolve requisition, purchase order and invoice-related queries in support of all Business Areas, to ensure 3-way matching process is accurate and timely, and that prompt payment targets are met.
• Process requisition requests on behalf of the Directorate of Corporate Services and on occasion the wider Agency.
• Process internal credit/debit, manual and one-off payments to ensure payments are processed and supplier account balances are accurate.
• Support Business Areas with expense queries within the expense platform, develop a working knowledge of MCA policy on UK and Overseas subsistence rates to ensure correct rates are applied.
• Undertake compliance checks at the instruction of the P2P Lead, this may include PO approvals, expense claims, Government Procurement Card transactions.
• Undertake data cleansing activity within accounting system in support of Shared Service migration project, including updating/closing supplier records, clearing historic invoice registrations and closing of redundant purchase orders.
• Support testing of the accounting system as required by actioning test scripts to ensure system updates are accurate. Raise defects where errors occur and work with the Unit4 team to resolve.
• Support the delivery of the O2C function as required and develop a working knowledge of the current O2C policies and procedures.
• Ad-hoc duties within the Corporate Services Directorate.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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Company:
Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £26,607 - £26,607

Hours:

Full-time

Location:

Southampton

Job type:
Temporary

Posting date: 18 Aug 2026

Closing date: 31 Aug 2026

Can you work under pressure, deliver to deadlines and work on concurrent tasks?

Have you got experience in Microsoft Excel and Word?

Are you proactive approach to problem solving & issue resolution?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This role sits within the Financial Transactions team and supports the Purchase to Pay (P2P) Lead.…