Job summary
Employer heading
Financial Management Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 4 Finance Management Assistant within the Finance team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. The Trust’s vision is to provide excellent care to the communities we serve and our Finance Team plays an integral part in supporting the Trust to achieve this.
The post holder will join a Future Focused Finance Level 2 accredited, professional and friendly team that is committed to providing a high standard of service to support our operational colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as part of the operational finance team to deliver financial advice and support to operational service managers, budget holders and their wider teams. They will support the delivery of monthly financial reporting of management accounts, national finance returns as other ad-hoc financial reports required for operational managers to make decisions.
The successful candidate will also be involved in meeting with budget holders, managers and clinicians to help them understand their financial position and help them to forecast their spend accurately, what is driving any over/underspends and what options are available to them.
They will also work as part of the wider finance team of improvement projects, looking at continuously improving the processes within the finance department as well as delivering training to more junior members of the finance team, whilst also having the opportunity to get involved with HFMA, Future Focused Finance, One NHS Finance and the access to the training these organisation provide.
Working for our organisation
Employing more than 6,000 people, and hundreds of colleagues and students from other organisations, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east.
The Trust is on an improvement journey, with a range of new build projects including a new off-site Community Diagnostic Centre and an ambitious Hospital Transformation Programme HTP with a comprehensive redevelopment of the Royal Shrewsbury site which will modernise our facilities and infrastructure with a range of other adjacent renewal projects to enable the development of the estate with the aim to delivery better care for our communities.
This is making SaTH an exciting time to join the organisation, and be part of the operational finance department helping to support the trusts improvement journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please See Job Description and Personal Specification for full details on what is required for this role.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- AAT Intermediate
Desirable criteria
- ECDL
Work Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a range of accounting areas
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Reconciliation of Budgets
- IT Systems
- Coding
- Costing
- Journals
- Accruals
Desirable criteria
- Working Knowledge of Financial Software
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communicate complex financial information to Departmental managers
- Investigate financial data and resolve financial issues
- Design financial spreadsheets
- Able to plan own work, as managed not supervised
- Accuracy required when inputting & calculating information
- Keyboard skills
- Ability to prioritise tasks & work to deadlines
- Work effectively within a team environment
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lydia Sadler-Esp
- Job title
- Finance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
- Telephone
- 01743 492402
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