About The Company
What’s your idea of working in care? We’d love to share a glimpse of life at Salutem with you! At our core, we’re a team of people supporting people to live a life they love. At Salutem we are proud to provide a range of care and support in our schools, day centres, and residential homes for children and adults. Just like any family, we want the very best for the individuals we support. Our aim at Salutem Care and Education is to empower people to live a life they choose, regardless of the care and support they need. Each individual we support at Salutem Care and Education has an opportunity to live their best life each and every day. We are proud to offer outstanding levels of care, support and education for each individual we support as part of our Salutem family. At Salutem Care and Education, we recognise the value and wisdom that come from all stages of life. Join our
team to be a part of a community that truly appreciates the richness of age diversity.
About The Role
The group finance team oversees the finance operation of 125 care homes, schools, and colleges across the United Kingdom and have approximately 1,300 service users. We are looking for a candidate with at least two years’ experience in accounts payable and/or accounts receivable. The role will also encapsulate part time support for our business development team in providing fee quote calculation support and business development analytics. Based in our central Windsor office you will be part of the group finance team.
Key Responsibilities
Job Scope:
We are looking for an Accounts Payable Supervisor to join the team in Windsor for 6 months to cover a secondment supporting our Accounts Payable Manager by managing the processing of invoices received for payment and undertaking the payment of all creditors in an accurate, efficient and timely manner. The right candidate will be friendly and enthusiastic, keen to learn and ideally experienced in a similar role.
Job Responsibilities:
- Processing invoices and payments in compliance with policies and procedures
- Maintaining integrity of accounts payable accounting data
- Preparing fortnightly Supplier Runs
- Checking & Correcting Duplicate Invoice Process
- Identifying and resolving discrepancies and queries by speaking to and building relationships with suppliers and colleagues
- Assisting the Accounts Payable team with reconciliation of our records to supplier statements
- Be the first line of escalation for AP queries from the 3 junior members of the team.
- Assist with process improvement initiatives by identifying ways of reducing processing time and implementing solutions agreed with the AP Manager.
- Providing ad hoc analytical support to the finance team
Requirements:
- A minimum of 4 years working in an AP Team is a similar industry.
- Proven understanding of, and ideally experience of, basic bookkeeping and accounting payable principles.
- Friendly and enthusiastic personality, with high levels of attention to detail
- Studying or looking to study for professional qualifications (e.g AAT, CIMA, ACCA)
- Fluent English speaker.
- Proficiency with MS Office, in particular MS Excel. Experience with Sage 200 or a similar system would be an advantage but is not essential
- Ability to work in the UK and to receive a clear DBS check
- Experience of working within the healthcare sector or similar multi-site business would be an advantage but is not essential.
This job description should not be seen as all encompassing, and the post holder will be expected to undertake any other responsibilities appropriate to the post as identified by the company. We are looking to create a multi-skilled team so we will expose you to other aspects of the finance team including sales ledger, management accounting and financial planning and analysis.
Each member of staff has a responsibility to ensure that they undertake Continuous Self Development.
