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Accounts Payable Clerk
Grade
Band 4
Contract
9 months (Fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
151-LC345
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Heatherwood Hospital
Town
Ascot
Salary
£28,859 - £31,670 per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/08/2025 23:59

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Accounts Payable Clerk

Band 4

Job overview

Join a dedicated and supportive finance team at NHS Frimley Health Foundation Trust and play a vital role in ensuring our suppliers and partners are paid promptly and accurately.

We are seeking an organised, proactive, and detail-focused Accounts Payable Clerk to support the efficient financial operations of the Trust. Based at Heatherwood Hospital but primarily working from home, this role offers the flexibility of remote working with the support of an experienced team.

Reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, you will be responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payments to the Trust’s suppliers, both internal and external. You’ll work with minimal supervision, managing your own workload while meeting key financial deadlines.

You’ll also contribute to maintaining data accuracy in our finance systems and play an essential part in verifying, processing, and resolving invoice-related queries.

The Team

You will join a supportive Accounts Payable team of around 10 colleagues, working closely within a wider Finance Directorate of approximately 60 staff, including Business Support, Technical Accounts, Income, Costing and Contracting teams.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Ensure timely and accurate payments to suppliers, following Trust financial processes.

  • Assist with weekly payment runs, including manipulating and validating payment data using Excel (including VLOOKUP).

  • Validate and enter new supplier details into the finance system, ensuring correct approval processes are followed.

  • Match invoices to receipts using both manual and digital systems.

  • Process invoices using tools such as EROS and Finance Process Manager.

  • Respond to complex and sensitive supplier and manager queries by phone and in writing.

  • Scan, template, and upload invoices accurately and promptly.

  • Accurately input financial data across various systems and spreadsheets.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • A flexible hybrid working arrangement

  • A collaborative, values-led team culture

  • Opportunities to develop new skills and contribute to improvement initiatives

  • Access to NHS benefits including generous annual leave and pension scheme

Please note: This role does not offer sponsorship.

For full details, refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 5 GCSE Grade C or over, including English and Mathematics (or equivalent)
  • AAT Level 3 or accounting NVQ 4 or equivalent knowledge acquired through experience
  • MS Office/Windows
  • Detailed knowledge of Financial Accounts procedures
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of knowledge of finance issues probably derived from working in a financial environment
  • Experience of NHS VAT legislation
  • Education to A level standard or equivalent

Specific Competencies

Essential criteria
  • IT skills, incorporating the input of financial data, creation and manipulation of spreadsheets
  • Ability to process large volumes of data input
  • Working with spreadsheets and computer systems
Desirable criteria
  • Previous accountancy experience having gained knowledge of finance computer systems and finance ledgers

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Working with spreadsheets and computer systems
Desirable criteria
  • Previous Accountancy Experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerWe Work Flexibly

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma Rance
Job title
Accounts Payable Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 6145571
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