Business Office Accounts Assistance

Spire Healthcare
Business Office Accounts Assistant Finance/Accounts/Administration £24k plus excellent benefits Bristol Permanent – Full-Time Spire Bristol Hospital have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Accountant to join the team. The purpose of this role is to process and input routine financial transactions accurately and within defined timescales. Also to help the hospital achieve and exceed its business volume targets and improve the customer experience by helping establish and embed good processes, delivering against these effectively and efficiently and ensuring accuracy in all tasks. Duties and responsibilities; – To ensure all billing is actioned promptly and accurately in line with Spire procedure identifying billing problems, placing billing alerts, suspending and clearing as required. – To establish and maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. – Support the completion of Bank Reconcilations – Collecting payments for upcoming outpatient procedures – Daily maintenance of the departmental shared mailbox – Support the department to achieve KPI targets – manage unbilled report, resolve patient invoice queries – Adhoc cashiering & posting entries to the accounting systems according to work instructions. – Adhoc processing of standard supplier invoices, consultant fees and patient refunds. – To review and take appropriate action for overdue local plan debt – To call off daily and monthly reports and action them accordingly to specified work instructions – Undertake payment collection for self-funding surgical procedures – Shared responsibility for incoming calls. – Providing cover within the team where and when required Who we’re looking for; – Good communication skills – written, verbal and strong interpersonal. – Knowledge of SAP and wider hospital processes is an advantage. The ability to understand and work with numbers is essential. – Good organizational skills. – Able to understand key business processes and other business drivers. – Role models high standards of personal integrity, displays initiative and identifies opportunities for personal development. – PC literate, able to adopt and contribute, where required, to the introduction and development of new systems. – Experienced in healthcare or other customer orientated business is desirable. – AAT level 1 as a minimum Benefits: We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to: – 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays – Study support is available – Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options – ‘Spire for you’ reward platform – discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers – Free Bupa wellness screening – Private medical insurance – Life assurance We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward. Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care. For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Mark Ballard Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications