Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Northern General Hospital
Town Sheffield
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/03/2025 23:59
Head of Accounts Payable
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.
Job overview
Applications are invited from motivated and enthusiastic individuals to lead a vibrant and busy Accounts Payable team.
The post holder will manage the centralised Accounts Payable and Goods Receipting functions of the Trust, ensuring that suppliers’ goods receipt notes, invoices, and credit notes are processed and paid promptly and accurately in accordance with the Trust's Financial Governance arrangements.
We spend around £1.5 billion each year to provide over two million patient episodes, and it is essential that we have the best team helping and supporting us in being the best organisation we can possibly be. To help us do this we are now seeking a Head of Accounts Payable.
The new post holder will lead a friendly and supportive team. They will be closely working with clinical and corporate colleagues to support a first-class Finance team to ensure we provide the best possible care to patients and deliver the best value for money for the people of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and beyond. An effective working knowledge of IT packages and MS Windows, and strong numerical and team-working skills are essential. Excellent communication skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines are vital.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that policies and procedures are in place for the effective control of Accounts Payable financial services transactions.
To set monthly targets on key performance indicators for Accounts Payable activities, and ensure that the Accounts Payable team achieves these targets.
To work closely with the Procurement Department on developments to strengthen and modernise controls and operations over non-pay expenditure across the Trust, making recommendations for the continual improvement/modernisation of end-to-end processes and applications, in line with Trust strategic objectives and customer service needs.
To lead the implementation of section projects/support service improvement across the Trust.
To provide technical expertise, advice, and support on all Accounts Payable & “Purchase to Pay” matters to Clinical and Corporate Directorates as necessary.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
STH is the largest employer in the region and we are committed to providing a great place to work for all our staff across our hospitals and community services. We are a highly vibrant organisation with some of the highest levels of staff retention of any major employer in the country and our staff consistently rate us as a safe and supportive place to work.
Treating our staff well is at the heart of who we are as an employer and we provide first class salary packages including above average holiday entitlement and a wide range of flexible benefits such as an excellent pension scheme, childcare and holiday clubs, education and development opportunities, staff discounts on a wide range of products, shops, and services.
We are committed to recruiting and developing a diverse pool of talented people who want to be part of making STH a thriving and PROUD place to work and ensuring we continue to flourish and succeed in improving the lives of the people we are proud to serve. If we sound like the kind of organisation you would like to work in, we would be delighted to speak to you about this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* CCAB or CIMA qualified OR Extensive and demonstrable relevant Accounts Payable experience, dealing with payable values/volumes in excess of £425m/230k pa.
* Degree
Experience
* Sufficient recent and relevant senior management experience in an Accounts Payable function.
* Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, procedures and policies, particularly pertinent to the NHS, including legislation
* Comprehensive knowledge of and demonstrable experience in the practical application of governance frameworks in relation to Accounts Payable functions.
* Knowledge & understanding of VAT regime as applicable to NHS services.
* Knowledge and understanding of NHS Financial regime, in particular to Inter-Authority Balance process.
* Extensive and demonstrable staff management experience.
* Understanding of financial system functionality requirements for accounts payable issues.
* Demonstrable track record of financial services development.
* Experience of manipulating/interrogating ledger and information systems.
* Demonstrably good IT skills including Advanced Excel skills.
* Experience of integrated Estates Management Modules.
* Experience of Inventory Management Modules.
Further training
* Evidence of recent CPD/relevant experience.
* Understanding and interpretation skills necessary to perform technical expert adviser role.
* Strong verbal reasoning and oral & written communication skills.
* Ability to undertake complex and involved analysis, producing results that may have material consequences for the Organisation.
* Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational and planning skills.
* High degree of numeracy.
* Ability to motivate and develop teams to achieve targets.
* Meticulous and attention to detail.
* Ability to question and learn quickly.
* Flexible and adaptable - able to manage competing and changing workloads.
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