An exciting role is available in the Income Treasury & Cashiers team in Finance with responsibility for processing the invoices for the Trust income of over £1,900M a year. The role requires the use of the Trust's finance systems for review, processing, and approval of all sales invoice requests across the full range of Trust income ensuring that all requests are valid, accurate, and in line with the correct VAT treatment for NHS income. This role requires a good working knowledge of current best practices for sales invoicing with minimum queries., Responsible for the accurate and timely raising and despatch of invoices and credit notes for all customers raising queries back to the invoice requester where relevant. Provide assistance with month-end income accruals ensuring that all invoice requests not processed by month-end are accrued. Provide query management service back to departments and to external customers in respect of the status of invoices raised or awaiting processing. Receive internal and external telephone calls and deal with customer queries., Income Treasury and Cashiers are responsible for external customer billing for all goods and services provided by the Trust. The department isresponsible also for debt collection and processing of all receipts to customer accounts. There is a Cash Office on both hospital sites that looksafter patients' monies and patient travel refunds.
The successful applicant will have good knowledge of current VAT legislation as applied to healthcare and associated income streams, be able to work with minimum supervision on the daily activities, be able to use Excel for month-end activity, and suggest changes to working practices to increase efficiency. This role will need to develop good working relationships with staff in income-generating departments across the Trust and to learn how the Trust works.