Accounts Payable Clerk, Financial Services
Top Benefits
About the role
Accounts Payable Clerk, Financial Services
The Opportunity
The Accounts Payable Clerk is responsible for the accurate and timely preparation of accounts payable, maintaining accurate records and reconciling accounting statements. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Accurate & timely payment to suppliers following Health Centre Policies (including matching invoices with receiving reports);
- Communicating with and assisting managers & staff regarding payment of invoices;
- Providing quality customer service for suppliers and public by responding to any inquires;
- Facilitating cheque run to meet suppliers demands' obtaining foreign bank drafts and ensuring that all invoices have been coded correctly;
- Communicating with various suppliers, sales reps, accounts receivable reps, and Health Centre managers to ensure goods/equipment are received/installed and fully operational before funds are released;
- Compiling cash flow payables and accrual monthly report; ensuring proper authorization on all invoices/receiving reports; providing updates to the Purchasing Department on price changes;
- Reconciling monthly supplier statements; year end and external audit preparation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Hours of Work
Monday to Friday; 35 hours per week.
Your Qualifications
- Minimum High School Diploma or G.E.D. required.
- Graduate from a recognized Business or Office Administration program.
- University-related accounting course an asset.
- Minimum six months experience in accounts payable with a computerized application (two to three years preferred); experience in a health care setting considered an asset.
- SAP experience an asset.
- Demonstrated excellent organizational skills.
- Proven team player with demonstrated initiative and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated flexibility to meet workload demands.
- Proven attention to detail.
- Competencies in other languages an asset.
IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.
Promoting an anti‑racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. ... (additional context omitted for brevity)
About Nova Scotia Health Authority
We are Nova Scotia Health. We are rural and urban. We are in hospitals, health centres and community. We serve individuals and communities from Yarmouth to Cape Breton, from Amherst to Halifax, and everything in between.
We are researchers and learners, looking for new ways to prevent and treat disease and maintain health. We are partners – with community groups, schools, government, foundations and auxiliaries, community health boards and, most importantly, with you.
Most of all, we are a community of caring, compassionate people who care deeply about health, healing and learning. Together with you, we will create a healthier Nova Scotia.
Mission: Working together to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning
Vision: Healthy people, healthy communities – for generations
Accounts Payable Clerk, Financial Services
Top Benefits
About the role
Accounts Payable Clerk, Financial Services
The Opportunity
The Accounts Payable Clerk is responsible for the accurate and timely preparation of accounts payable, maintaining accurate records and reconciling accounting statements. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Accurate & timely payment to suppliers following Health Centre Policies (including matching invoices with receiving reports);
- Communicating with and assisting managers & staff regarding payment of invoices;
- Providing quality customer service for suppliers and public by responding to any inquires;
- Facilitating cheque run to meet suppliers demands' obtaining foreign bank drafts and ensuring that all invoices have been coded correctly;
- Communicating with various suppliers, sales reps, accounts receivable reps, and Health Centre managers to ensure goods/equipment are received/installed and fully operational before funds are released;
- Compiling cash flow payables and accrual monthly report; ensuring proper authorization on all invoices/receiving reports; providing updates to the Purchasing Department on price changes;
- Reconciling monthly supplier statements; year end and external audit preparation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Hours of Work
Monday to Friday; 35 hours per week.
Your Qualifications
- Minimum High School Diploma or G.E.D. required.
- Graduate from a recognized Business or Office Administration program.
- University-related accounting course an asset.
- Minimum six months experience in accounts payable with a computerized application (two to three years preferred); experience in a health care setting considered an asset.
- SAP experience an asset.
- Demonstrated excellent organizational skills.
- Proven team player with demonstrated initiative and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated flexibility to meet workload demands.
- Proven attention to detail.
- Competencies in other languages an asset.
IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.
Promoting an anti‑racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. ... (additional context omitted for brevity)
About Nova Scotia Health Authority
We are Nova Scotia Health. We are rural and urban. We are in hospitals, health centres and community. We serve individuals and communities from Yarmouth to Cape Breton, from Amherst to Halifax, and everything in between.
We are researchers and learners, looking for new ways to prevent and treat disease and maintain health. We are partners – with community groups, schools, government, foundations and auxiliaries, community health boards and, most importantly, with you.
Most of all, we are a community of caring, compassionate people who care deeply about health, healing and learning. Together with you, we will create a healthier Nova Scotia.
Mission: Working together to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning
Vision: Healthy people, healthy communities – for generations