Finance Assistant - Financial Accounts

To support a robust finance department that is embedded to a high standard within the Trust. The Financial Services section is responsible for Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Capital Accounting, and Financial Accounting. It also provides finance and accounting services to The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Charitable Fund, a registered charity.

The post holder will provide support across the Accounts Payable and or Accounts Receivable teams within Financial Services Section to meet the requirements of the Trusts business and to provide development opportunities for the post holder. The allocation of work will be at managements discretion and in agreement with the post holder to provide development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

AP Post open and distribute appropriately

Run the reminder letters daily and post out

AP Manually Input invoices onto the financial system scanning invoices to NEP IDR

Post out AR Invoices and credit notes raised

Monitor Cloudtrade and distribute documents appropriately

Monitor the AP Mailbox and distribute documents appropriately

Checking Invoices for Pharmacy Batches

Checking supplier statements

Maintenance of customer and supplier records

Run the Worldpay end of day banking

Maintain the Invoice dashboard of Incomplete Invoices on NEP

Planning and organising own work schedule, with the ability to work independently, to ensure that activities are completed within agreed timescales to deliver an efficient and effective service.

Maintaining an effective working relationship with other individuals (at all levels) of the purchase and sales ledger, financial accounts section, other officers of the Trust and suppliers of goods and services to ensure the delivery of a professional service focused on delivering a high level of customer satisfaction.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.