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Job summary

Main area
Administrative
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
151-JM-02-A
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Heatherwood Hospital
Town
Ascot
Salary
£52,963 - £59,360 per annum INCL HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Business Support Accountant

Band 8a

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a Business Support Accountant role permanently into the team.

This integral post will be supporting Theatres, Critical Care & Anaesthetics and General Surgery directorates.

Main duties of the job

This is a great opportunity to use your financial experience and knowledge to  work at a more senior level and continue to provide high quality financial support to  the Trust, and lead on the Finance Support for multi-directorates.

If you are interested, please take a look at the job description and if you fit the person specification we look forward to your application.

Providing a full financial support service from Month End Accounting, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, CIPs, and providing finance data for decision making.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. 
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. 
 
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the Job Description and Person spec if you have any queries please contact Abdul-Jalil Lone

Person specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential criteria
  • CCAB Finalist
  • Presentation Skills
  • Analyse complex facts and situations
  • Experience of managing a month-end close and leading on directorate budget setting
  • Strong IT skills, incorporating the input of financial data, creation and manipulation of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
  • Staff Line Management Experience
Desirable criteria
  • CCAB qualified –equivalent to a Masters degree
  • Evidence of leadership experience and/or potential
  • Knowledge of Reference Costs and the NHS payment system
  • Understanding of the NHS financial framework
  • Knowledge of e-financials financial system and ESR payroll system
  • Experienced in developing and delivering formal, complex business cases to non-finance managers and directors

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Abdul-Jalil Lone
Job title
Head of Business Support
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03006145596
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