Accounts Payable Clerk | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 January 2026 |
| Location: | Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6GE |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7633732/390-COR-SO-0659 |
Summary
Join Our Accounts Payable Team!
We’re looking for a detail-oriented and proactive individual to support the smooth operation of our Accounts Payable ledger. In this role, you’ll be responsible for processing invoices, matching purchase orders, and resolving queries efficiently, ensuring compliance with our approved policies and procedures.
You’ll work closely with suppliers, service line managers, and internal teams, so strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential. The ability to manage deadlines under pressure while maintaining accuracy is key to success.
We’re seeking someone with:
✔ An approachable and professional attitude
✔ Excellent attention to detail
✔ Strong computer skills
✔ The confidence to work independently without direct supervision
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy building positive working relationships, we’d love to hear from you!
Discuss complex queries with suppliers, managers, budget holders and procurement staff where there are issues of non-payment, incorrect of late payments or other sensitive issues.
Ensure correct authorisation, coding and timely passing of invoices (both purchase order and non-purchase order).
Support the review of Scanned documents ensuring accuracy of the scanned image and register all invoices onto the accounts payable system.
Investigate statements, credit notes, discounts etc. identifying and implementing the correct actions to take.
Match invoices with orders on the electronic ordering system in accordance with procedures and working practices where auto match has failed investigating what has caused the auto match to fail.
Register and input invoices, credit notes and payment requests into the accounts payable system in accordance with approved policies and procedures.
Review invoices for payment, ensuring the VAT has been properly identified and reclaimed, the invoice has been correctly coded and authorised and is arithmetically correct.
Receive and process manual payment request form in line with relevant policies and procedures.
Responsible for ensuring payments are allocated to the correct supplier account.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
We look forward to your application!
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.
Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025