Job vacancy: Finance Analyst, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Ascot

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 151-LC280

Employer: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Greenwood Offices
Town: Ascot
Salary: £31,469 - £38,308 per annum including HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/2025 23:59

Finance Analyst

Band 5

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will support and input into the production of monthly and annual management accounts, including;

Correctly coding a large volume of supplier invoices on a daily basis
Maintaining Budget Managers document showing correct approvers for each cost centre
Investigating variances and resolving discrepancies, liaising with internal and external parties as necessary.
Discussion with staff regarding confidential and sensitive financial issues and offering financial advice where possible.
Participating with interfaces and journals to input and manipulate financial data onto Finance Systems.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Relevant finance experience in a large organisation.
Experience of preparing and maintaining accounting records
Use of relevant software packages
Preparation of management accounts

Desirable criteria

Previous NHS Accounting Experience
Knowledge of E Financials
Knowledge of Oracle Financials
Knowledge of Electronic Staff Record

Qualifications

Essential criteria

AAT full membership (i.e. exams plus portfolio of minimum one year’s work experience
CCAB/CIMA Certificate level or Honours degree

Desirable criteria

Commitment towards completing CCAB/CIMA qualification

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent written and verbal skills
Ability to explain financial issues with clarity

Desirable criteria

Influencing, negotiating and cross-functional working skills
Willingness to travel between sites

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

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.