Business Administrator

**Accounts Administrator | Spire Claremont | Finance | Sheffield | Full Time | Permanent | Competitive Salary**

Spire Claremont Hospital is looking to recruit for an experienced Accounts Administrator to join our Finance team on a permanent, full -time basis.

You will be working as part of a small team, undertaking a range of transactional duties, to support the accounts function of the hospital, underpinning patient invoicing and payment for activity. To ensure the accuracy and timeliness of all processes.

Spire Claremont Hospital has provided first-class independent healthcare at the heart of the South Yorkshire community since 1953. Our hospital is situated among beautifully landscaped grounds in Crosspool, Sheffield and it is situated 3 miles (about 20 minutes) to the south west of Sheffield city centre. Claremont Hospital has 42 beds, three laminar flow theatres, 13 consulting rooms, a static MRI and CT scanner, and plain and digital X-ray. The hospital provides surgery and outpatients with diagnostic imaging services.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Review of worklists on regular basis to ensure invoicing undertaken in a timely fashion
- Undertaking insurance checks prior to patient admission to ensure appropriate authorisation has been obtained for treatment
- Record monies received and ensure applied to appropriate patient accounts
- Receive incoming calls from patients dealing with queries or directing queries as appropriate and taking payments for invoices and upcoming treatments
- To resolve payment and invoice queries from patients, consultants, insurers, and third parties
- Undertake day to day processing of patients invoices across the contracts of the hospital
- To ensure invoices are raised in line with agreed tariffs and contracts across a range of purchasers
- Process purchase ledger invoices in a timely and methodical manner
- Review supplier statements and liaise with suppliers to ensure accounts are accurate
- To provide administrative support to the accounts function, including processing incoming and outgoing post
- To establish and maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- To assist in ad-hoc data requests and audit queries.
- Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post

**Who we're looking for**:

- Education to GCSE standard of English and Mathematics essential
- PC literacy is vital and the role.
- Time management skills are extremely important
- Telephone communication skills

**Skills and Behaviours**:

- Strong administrative skills with a keen eye for detail
- Confident telephone manner with the ability to communicate with a wide range of customers at all levels
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, both internally and externally
- The ability to work effectively as a team
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise demanding workloads accordingly.
- Strong focus on delivering and meeting customer expectations
- Ability to produce and analyse management information using appropriate software packages

**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
- 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 insuranceLife 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 us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people._