Job summary
- Main area
- Financial Accounting
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6422040JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cobalt
- Town
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Accountancy Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Accountancy Assistant to join our Financial Management team. This post is a fixed term post for 12 months covering maternity leave.
The role includes manipulating and analysing data within a computerised accounting system to produce financial management budget reports which aid the delivery of a high quality financial management accounting service. Also to analyse financial queries including the preparation of forecasts of income & expenditure.
The post will be based at Northumbria House, Cobalt Business Park.
Main duties of the job
- Skilled in the use of spreadsheets, databases and word processing through studying towards ECDL accreditation or equivalent experience.
- Good communication skills are essential both orally and in writing, with such experience covering a broad range of management and non-finance staff.
- Good analytical skills and numeracy are essential. Examples include:-
- Analysis of complex financial queries such as forecasting the year end pay expenditure position for a Pathology department based on proposed staffing changes,
- Analysing multi-stranded reasons for expenditure varying from budget, and
- Resolving queries concerning financial reports from budget holders including identification of errors and rectifying problems with data from feeder systems such as payroll, requiring the comparison of a range of options in deciding on the best solution.
- Planning and organisation of ongoing complex tasks is required around strict weekly, monthly and annual financial deadlines to meet financial reporting requirements. This involves the allocation and re-allocation of tasks to the Accountancy Assistant as dictated by short-notice requests from others. For example, initiating and co-ordinating the production of a Directorate-wide year end expenditure position, requiring the sourcing and collation of complicated information from several departments and from other finance staff.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To support the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager in providing high quality financial accounting across Financial Services.
- To undertake specific projects as defined by the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager.
- To input data to and manipulate data within the computerised accounting system. To produce monthly financial reports for managers within strict financial timescales, together with supporting information.
- To analyse and investigate complex queries and provide advice and training to Department staff as required by the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager.
- Analysis of debtor and creditor accounts.
- To support to the Trust's Treasury Management function, providing necessary support for the cashiers when required.
- Analysis of monthly VAT input/output and completion of VAT return for payment/reclaim of any monies due.
- Assist in the implementation of new or revised operating systems to contribute to the improvement of Financial Services Information Systems. ie. Oracle: MTD, Reconciliations.
- To assist the Finance Manager in the implementation of any recommendations agreed following audits.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Previous experience in a finance background
- Knowledge of finance computer systems and NHS financial regime
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Minimum of four GCSEs including Mathematics & English Language or equivalent qualification and / or demonstrable relevant experience
- • Association of Accounting Technicians – Technician Level or equivalent experience
- Studying towards ECDL accreditation or equivalent experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Warren Hardy
- Job title
- Head of Financial Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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