[Hiring] Accounts Assistant @South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust is currently looking to recruit a full time (37.5 hours per week) Sales Ledger Assistant. The successful applicant will need to have a calm and professional manner, excellent attention to details, excellent keyboard skills and have the ability to work within a team environment.

• Input of customers' invoices to the Trust’s computerised Finance.
• Operation of the sales ledger system.
• Dealing with and clearing customer’s telephone and email queries.
• Ensuring correct and appropriate treatment of VAT where allowable by HMRC guidance.
• Comprehensive credit control activities to ensure prompt receipt of payments.
• Maintaining an efficient filing system for all sales documents.
• Liaising with budget holders to resolve queries where required.
• Ensuring timely flow of outstanding invoices from budget holders.
• Ensuring appropriate coding and authorisation of all sales invoices.
• Closure and reconciliation of monthly sales ledger and production of reports.
• Assisting as required with miscellaneous office duties as directed by the Financial Services Manager, including assisting other areas of the Finance Department during periods of annual leave/staff absence.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent keyboard skills.
• Ability to work within a team environment.

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.

Company Description

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

• The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.
• We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year.
• We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.