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# Purchase to Pay Assistant

- **Company:** Mca
- **Location:** Southampton, UK
- **Salary:** £26,607.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Data Cleansing, Data Management
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.cv-library.co.uk/job/225503629/purchase-to-pay-assistant

## About the Role

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

 * Ability to work under pressure, deliver to deadlines and work on concurrent tasks
 * Experience in Excel and Word
 * Proactive approach to problem solving & issue resolution

## Description

This role sits within the Financial Transactions team and supports the Purchase to Pay (P2P) Lead. The role involves providing support to a range of stakeholders to ensure compliance across financial processes, in line with Government requirements. The role will focus on Purchase to Pay responsibilities, including supplier master data fraud checking; purchase order (PO) and invoice processing, queries and verifications; Travel and Subsistence (T&S) claims and Government Procurement card (GPC) queries and compliance checks; and data cleansing.

The purpose of the Purchase to Pay Finance Assistant is to assist the P2P Lead in ensuring that all transactions are processed in accordance with the MCA's policies, procedures, and controls. Support the work of the regions and other business areas whilst liaising with Unity Business Services (UBS) as necessary. Help resolve pro-actively any MCA queries with the Shared Services provider UBS.

Top Responsibilities

 * Input, review and approve Supplier master data within the accounting system in a timely manner, ensuring all fraud checks have been completed.
 * Resolve requisition, purchase order and invoice-related queries in support of all Business Areas, to ensure 3-way matching process is accurate and timely, and that prompt payment targets are met.
 * Process requisition requests on behalf of the Directorate of Corporate Services and on occasion the wider Agency.
 * Process internal credit/debit, manual and one-off payments to ensure payments are processed and supplier account balances are accurate.
 * Support Business Areas with expense queries within the expense platform, develop a working knowledge of MCA policy on UK and Overseas subsistence rates to ensure correct rates are applied.

For more information on the role and responsibilities please see the full job advert on CS Jobs using the link provided.


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