Accounts Payable Assistant - 6 month FTC

Full-time, Monday - Friday 

Hybrid working - North Bristol office 2-3 days a week

The Role

As the Accounts Payable Assistant, you will provide a professional and efficient accounts payable service to ensure suppliers are paid accurately and promptly, and maintain excellent relationships with suppliers and internal and external customers.

Responsibilities 

• Input supplier invoices and practice data submissions in an accurate and timely manner to ensure correct payments
• Answer practice and supplier queries accurately and in a timely manner, resolving any issues, escalating issues where required
• Ensure correct authorisation is received for all invoices
• Ensure monthly Laboratory invoices are entered into accounting system via daily files in line with pre-set deadlines
• To reconcile supplier statements to ensure system and payment accuracy
• Activate and generate all supplier, associates, hygienists and locums payment runs in accordance with a monthly time schedule
• Rectify any payment errors
• To ensure correct payment authorisation is received in a timely manner
• To ensure accurate remittances are sent to suppliers in a timely manner
• To manage the monthly submissions of data generated by Practice staff ensuring data is checked and input in a timely manner to correspond with month end accounting timetables and associates pay schedules
• To maintain accurate financial records, ensure all paper-based and archived records are maintained for audit purposes
• To ensure full compliance with all internal, external and legislative requirements
• To ensure a professional, courteous and proactive internal and external customer service is provided at all times

Skills/Experience

• Previous accounts payable experience in a high volume environment
• Computer literate, in particular Excel
• Demonstrable experience of inputting bulk data accurately and efficiently
• Customer service experience
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Team working
• Experience using CODA is an advantage 

Benefits

The benefits here are industry-leading, and we’ll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here’s a snapshot:

• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
• Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
• Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
• Pension scheme
• And many more, just ask…

If you or someone you know would be interested in working with a dynamic and expanding healthcare business, with lots of support on offer, great benefits and friendly teams, we would love to hear from you!

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.  

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We are committed to ensuring you are treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.