Accounts Receivable Officer

at  North West London Pathology

As the Accounts Receivable Supervisor you will be taking ownership and accountability for the credit control activities for North West London Pathology (NWLP), minimising bad debt whilst maximising profit through chasing NHS & Non-NHS clients and thereby ensuring prompt payment of outstanding invoices.
You will bring strong financial guidance and advice for NWLP staff to support a clear understanding of the financial plans and performance and providing financial training to key operational personnel.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will have a key role in maintaining strong financial rigour in our organisation.
The role will primarily be based at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, with the potential to travel to the partner sites as required. We value relationships and feel that face to face communication is important.
However, we care about how you work rather than where you work, so the role is open to remote working meaning you aren’t required to be in the office 5 days a week. We’d welcome a conversation with the successful candidate about what remote working looks like for you.
The purpose of this role is to take ownership and accountability for the credit control activities for North West London Pathology (NWLP), minimise bad debt whilst maximising profit through chasing NHS & Non-NHS clients and thereby ensuring prompt payment of outstanding invoices.
To take responsibility for contacting NHS and Non-NHS clients in accordance with our Credit Control processes and procedures, chasing outstanding payments and finding issues to credit control issues on a case by case basis.
To responsibility for managing high volume, high value and high complex accounts, regularly liaising with customers to identify queries on invoices that must be paid.
To provide and present NWLP Aged Debt Reports to NWLP Finance Director & Head of Finance with the relevant validation checks, analysis and trend reviews to ensure that reported data is complete and accurate.
To review, develop and implement revised procedures in line with the changing needs and systems used by the Trust.
Benefits include career development, flexible working, staff wellbeing programmes, staff awards and recognition scheme. We also have available benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
NWLP Induction
The NWLP induction will run on the first Monday of each month (provided it does not fall on a bank holiday) and includes laboratory training (for relevant laboratory roles). All new staff must attend the NWLP induction during their first week with NWLP.
For 2024/25, see below the start dates which you will be able to book once you have completed all your pre-employment checks.
Monday 2 December 2024
Monday 6 January 2025
Monday 3 February 2025
Monday 3 March 2025
Monday 7 April 2025
Monday 12 May 2025
Monday 2 June 2025
Monday 7 July 2025
Monday 4 August 2025
Monday 1 September 2025
Monday 6 October 2025
Monday 3 November 2025
Monday 1 December 2025
Candidates are advised to consider these start dates before agreeing end of service date with their current employer.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert

Please refer the Job description for details