At Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, patient care is at the heart of everything we do.
The Accounts Payable Senior Assistant provides essential support to the Trust’s payables function, ensuring accurate processing, record keeping and reporting of aged creditors.
The post holder will provide comprehensive support to the Accounts Payable Manager and wider team in the delivery of an efficient and effective Accounts Payable service.
The role will focus on processing high volumes of transactions, resolving queries, and maintaining accurate financial records in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will work closely with NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure invoices and payments are processed accurately and in a timely manner.
The successful candidate will be well organised, able to prioritise workload to meet deadlines, and demonstrate strong attention to detail in a high-volume environment.
The role involves monitoring key workflows such as non-PO invoices, interface rejections, Oracle holds, and PO matching queues, ensuring issues are identified and resolved within agreed timescales to minimise disruption to supplier payments and financial reporting.
A core responsibility is supporting compliance with the Trust’s No PO No Pay policy, providing guidance to stakeholders, challenging non-compliance, and escalating issues where necessary. The role also involves maintaining strong working relationships with suppliers, internal departments, and SBS, ensuring queries are handled effectively and escalated appropriately. The postholder contributes to process improvement, identifying recurring issues and supporting the implementation of solutions to enhance efficiency and control. They also play an important role in month-end activities, including reviewing GRNI and aged creditors reports, ensuring outstanding items are resolved, and supporting accurate financial reporting. In addition, the role includes monitoring performance against KPIs, supporting audit requirements, maintaining financial controls, and contributing to working capital management. The Senior Assistant supports operational activities within the team, assists management where required, and may provide cover for key responsibilities.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
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We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this something you would like to explore please contact Southern Housing on 02080 360017
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
