Finance Assistant

Due to retirement Holmes Chapel Health Centre are looking to appoint an experienced forward thinking and reliable Finance Assistant for 24 hours a week over 4 days. Based at Holmes Chapel Health Centre and reporting to the Practice Business Manager you will be responsible for the co-ordination and processing of invoices to suppliers and also making payments to the practice suppliers.

Ensuring transactions are posted accurately to the accounting systems and reconciled is a key part of the role as well as completing payroll with the support of an external payroll company., The Finance Assistant role is to support the Practice Business Manager and the Practice Accountant with all the day to day finance matters regarding the practice.

This will involve processing invoices, making payments for authorisation, liaising with suppliers and customers regarding payments and also reconciling the bank account on the accounting system IRIS.

As the practice has a dispensary these payments are reconciled weekly along with private income payments and also reconciling the weekly petty cash. Monthly VAT returns are also completed as well as any other information needed by the Practice Business Manager and the Practice Accountant.

Payroll is completed by an external payroll company but the role includes preparing all the information required for submission including overtime, sickness, holidays etc and starters and leavers.

Finally the role requires supporting the Practice Business Manager and Partners with any finance admin such as filing, scanning and copying as well as dealing with any general finance queries.

As this role is working with Partners financial information a high level of discretion is required. If you have outstanding attention to detail, you can demonstrate excellent finance, IT skills and have the ability to prioritise a busy workload with a very positive approach to work then we would love to hear from you.

We have a team of 6 partners, 2 Salaried GP's, 3 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 2 Practice Nurses, 2 HCA's, as well as GP Trainees. We have a large very supportive non-clinical team and a patient list size of around 13000. We are a large, forward thinking training practice based in the centre of Holmes Chapel.

Our practice has been rated as Good by CQC. We take pride in delivering quality care to our patients and have a strong training and personal development ethos.

We are part of CHOC PCN; we have clinical pharmacists, paramedics, MHP's, FCP's and Social Prescribers in place and look forward to developing local services further to meet the needs of our patient population.

We are a friendly supportive team who pride ourselves on delivering outstanding patient care. We have regular monthly team meetings, and a voice in the practice. We welcome new ideas that help team to deliver excellent patient care. We are an expanding and growing practice open to change and innovation.