Senior Purchase Ledger Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a permanent Senior Purchase Ledger Assistant role supporting the Purchase Ledger function within the Trust. The individual will provide financial and administrative support to the Financial Services section, working under the supervision of the Purchase Ledger Team Leader. Key duties include processing supplier invoices, resolving creditor queries, and ensuring compliance with financial policies. The role involves accurate input of invoices, matching with purchase orders, and performing supplier statement reconciliations.
Key responsibilities
- Receipt and accurate input onto the ledger any invoices received from external organisations and send out to relevant Managers for payment authorisation.
- Ensure invoices are processed to the correct purchase order and highlight where invoices are received without a purchase order.
- Matching of completed Good Received Notifications to registered invoices.
- Perform supplier statement reconciliations weekly on key accounts.
- Ensure VAT is correctly input and recorded on invoice in accordance with HMRC classifications.
- Answer queries regarding payment of Invoices from staff and external organisations.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of spreadsheets and using a computerised General Ledger System
- Experience in Finance Office environment
- Experience in Month End processes in particular in the production of Control Account Reconciliations
- Must be able to communicate clearly, concisely and courteously both verbally and in writing
- Willingness to work in co-operation with colleagues of a variety of disciplines in a flexible manner
- Ability to work to under minimal supervision and direction
- Ability to make timely and sound decisions
- Demonstrates the understanding and importance of teamwork
- Ability to use initiative in completing tasks
- Be compassionate, empathetic and caring to everyone
- Enable yourself and others to act with confidence and authority in order to achieve the best outcome for everyone
- Work with others. Be inclusive by understanding and valuing others to achieve the best results for everyone and everything we do
- Act with transparency and honesty; respect and value others to do the right thing at the right time for everyone.
Desirable criteria
- AAT Technician / Working Towards AAT qualification or equivalent CCAB
- Knowledge of Integra Computerised General Ledger System E D Senior Purchase Ledger Assistant
- Previous NHS experience in a Purchase ledger role
- Experience of Managing staff and their development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Purchase Ledger Assistant
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a permanent Senior Purchase Ledger Assistant, to support the Purchase Ledger function within our Trust.
Main duties of the job
The individual will provide financial and administrative support to the Financial Services section of the Finance department, working on a daily basis under the supervision of the Purchase Ledger Team Leader.
Ensure supplier invoices are registered, approved and processed for payment in line with the Cabinet Office Procurement Policy note and agreed supplier terms
Resolve creditor queries in a pragmatic and timely manner.
Ensure compliance with the Trust's SFIs, relevant Trust policy and NHS guidance and policy.
About us
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are b
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