Payments Assistant
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,992 to £26,835 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Temporary |
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Summary
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your career in finance? Ipswich Borough Council is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our Accounts Payable team as a Payments Assistant whilst we look to move to a new financial system.
As a Payments Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring the Council pays its suppliers in an accurate and timely manner. This role primarily supports the day-to-day operational running of the Accounts Payable System and the Procurement Card system.
We expect the successful candidate to hold a minimum of 4 GCSE’s including Maths and English as well as having proven experience within an accountancy environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Management of the Accounts Payable email inbox (electronic invoices)
Registering of supplier invoices and ensuring correct authorisation prior to payment.
Administering the Procurement Card System.
Ensuring all CIS suppliers are verified and set up correctly.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
This post is offered on a fixed term basis to 31st March 2026.
Hours of work are 37hrs per week, Monday to Friday.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 1 days per week working in the office).
For more information about this role please contact Darren McGurk on 01473 433921 or via email darren.mcgurk@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Interviews will be held on week commencing 4th August 2025.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
As a Payments Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring the Council pays its suppliers in an accurate and timely manner. This role primarily supports the day-to-day operational running of the Accounts Payable System and the Procurement Card system.
We expect the successful candidate to hold a minimum of 4 GCSE’s including Maths and English as well as having proven experience within an accountancy environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Management of the Accounts Payable email inbox (electronic invoices)
Registering of supplier invoices and ensuring correct authorisation prior to payment.
Administering the Procurement Card System.
Ensuring all CIS suppliers are verified and set up correctly.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
This post is offered on a fixed term basis to 31st March 2026.
Hours of work are 37hrs per week, Monday to Friday.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 1 days per week working in the office).
For more information about this role please contact Darren McGurk on 01473 433921 or via email darren.mcgurk@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Interviews will be held on week commencing 4th August 2025.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
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