Deputy Head of Transaction Services

We are looking to recruit a professional and highly motivated Deputy Head of Transactional Services. This individual will be responsible for the overall supervision of our processing teams, providing technical expertise to deliver a comprehensive Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Cashier Service. Working to financial regulations, policies and adhering to audit requirements delivering excellent focused customer service.

This is a key role in the finance team, and you will have direct line management responsibility for our Transactional Services Managers, you will be expected to work alongside our Head of Transactional Services, building and maintaining excellent working relationships with a variety of internal and external key stakeholders to provide a robust and reliable service to the Trust. They will need to have excellent communication skills and ability deal with complex issues, presenting information in a variety of formats to various audiences. As part of this role, they will be responsible for gathering an analysing data, to assist in the planning and development of long-term projects for the Transactional Services Team.

The post holder will be required to support and deputise for the Head of Transactional Services, to deliver continuous process improvement and ensuring that this work is translated into changes in day-to-day practices, assisting with the introduction and implementation of new technologies to effectively process high volumes of transactions.,

• Day to day management and supervision of the Transaction Services Supervisors, including one to ones, team meetings and appraisals


• Supporting the supervisor team in ensuring that adequate staffing and processes are in place, such that supplier invoices are scanned, processed and paid in a timely basis and ensuring customer invoices are raised and issued to customer


• Monitoring team performance, ensuring any escalated queries are resolved


• Reviewing key controls and KPIs, identifying areas for improvement


• Providing assurance that the Transaction Services Processing team are accurately paying invoices and that sub ledger accounts are maintained


• Dealing with complex queries from a range of stakeholder both within the finance team and externally, and providing assistance and advice as required


• Liaising with internal and external parties to discuss financial issues, negotiating and resolving issues



• Using specialist knowledge and experience review processes and identify software to drive team performance



• Analyses KPIs and complex financial information and data sets to identify trends., welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
  
  University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the