Financial Services is managed within the teams listed below. If you would like further information about these services or to discuss your needs with us, please contact our Business Development Team who will put you in touch with the key contact.
Accounts Receivable - this team provides a fully managed accounts receivable and debt recovery service. It also maintains the sales ledger and provides performance reports and statistics.
Accounts Payable - provide a fully managed accounts payable service as part of an integrated electronic purchase to pay process, enabling users to requisition, goods receipt, view and authorise invoices online. Independent benchmarking shows our performance and costs are ‘up there with the best’.
Charitable Fund Accounting - staff with in-depth knowledge of this specialist area provide a full charitable fund accounting service. This includes accounting for receipts and payments, producing monthly reports to fund holders, and preparing the annual accounts in accordance with the Charities Commission requirements and Accounting Standards.
Purchasing - with qualified purchasing professionals working to ISO accredited processes, this team helps customers to extract maximum value from their non-pay expenditure. The service is delivered through an e-purchasing system that handles requisition-to-order conversion, complimented by strategic contract sourcing together with support to customers on effective procurement of services. For more information, please download the ASP Purchasing 'information sheet' from the Downloads page.
Technical Accounting - to ensure compliance with the Department of Health guidance and other statutory rules on financial accounting, we provide a full technical accounting service. We also advise on corporate governance, control accounts, provide management information and complete statutory returns. Our professional accounting service also ensures full control is exercised over patients' monies.
Treasury and Cash Management - the provision of a professional cash management service ensures the liquidity of our clients, and compliance with cash targets through daily reconciliation of bank accounts and cash flow projections.
Payroll and Pensions
The experienced team ensures the payment of staff salaries and expenses, deals with administration and provides guidance on the NHS Pension Scheme. It also submits year-end returns to HM Revenue and Customs and the NHS Pensions Agency. The team operates a contact centre to answer payroll and pensions enquiries from client employees and managers.
Recruitment and Training Administration
Our service undertakes the more traditional recruitment areas better, faster and more cost effectively via an electronic recruitment system. This is used to process all vacancies to streamline transactions and improve communication between recruiting managers and our recruitment team. It also provides an electronic audit trail for all vacancies, as well as providing a self-service facility for recruiting managers and applicants. For more information, please download the ASP Recruitment 'information sheet' from the Downloads page.