Accountancy Assistant

Health Jobs UK; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and forward-thinking finance team as an Accountancy Assistant, where your contributions will directly impact the quality of mental health services. This role offers a chance to be part of a passionate team committed to improving patient outcomes and enhancing colleague experiences. You will play a vital role in financial management, ensuring the accurate reporting of financial information while promoting a culture of quality improvement. If you are numerate, computer literate, and eager to make a difference, this position is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in finance within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Essential: AAT / NVQ level 4 in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.
• Experience within Finance or Management Accounts is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely production of financial information.
• Support Financial Management colleagues for positive customer experience.

Skills

Financial Management

Numeracy

Microsoft Applications

Communication

Education

AAT / NVQ level 4

CCAB progression

Tools

ORACLE Financial System

Microsoft Excel

Job description

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities, and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in, and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families, and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

Are you ready to think differently and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking finance team?

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an Accountancy Assistant to join our finance team at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust on a Permanent Basis.

The Finance teams include many passionate, highly skilled, professional, and experienced colleagues who put people at the heart of everything we do. We are ambitious and want to continuously improve, whether that supports improved patient outcomes in providing high-quality support to our Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Autism services, value for money, or colleague experience. We want someone who shares that sense of ambition and energy to deliver change.

Main duties of the job

The Directorate provides a wide range of business support to the Trust including:

• Contracting & Income
• Financial Management and Reporting
• Finance Business Partnering
• Costing
• Financial Service
• Payroll and Employee Services

You will work as part of the Central Financial Management Team (CFM) supporting Financial Management colleagues to promote a positive customer experience in all communications internally and externally to the Trust and the Finance Department.

Working with the Financial Accountant (Reporting), you will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely production of financial information for service teams, senior staff, and non-finance managers from the central financial management function.

You will work as part of the team providing comprehensive and detailed financial management information.

Working for our organisation

The Accountancy Assistant within the Central Financial Management Team will play a key role in promoting an organisational culture that actively promotes the Trust's Vision and Values and positively engages staff, service users, and other stakeholders in quality improvement and service transformation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you would like to join our team, Faye Revely, Financial Accountant (Reporting), would welcome having a conversation with you. Should you wish to discuss the role and job description further, please contact them at [email protected] to arrange an appointment.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Essential: AAT / NVQ level 4 in a relevant subject or equivalent relevant experience to this qualification

• Desirable: Progression towards a CCAB or equivalent qualification.

Experience

• Essential: Experience within Finance or Management Accounts.
• Excellent skills and understanding of Microsoft applications.

• Desirable: Experience of ORACLE financial system.

Knowledge

• Essential: Knowledge and understanding of Computerised Financial and Management Accounting systems and processes.

• Desirable: Knowledge of NHS financial systems.

Skills

• Essential: Numerate and computer literate.

• Desirable: Knowledge of spreadsheet applications (Microsoft).

Note: The contract type on the vacancy states 'Fixed Term' if applicable. Internal applicants must have agreement from their current line manager for secondment.