Assistant Accountant

Newcastle Hospitals; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join the Financial Management team. The role focuses on providing financial information and analysis to Budget Holders and Senior Finance staff, with a new flexible working policy to support hybrid working.

Applicants should demonstrate experience in planning workloads to meet weekly, monthly and annual accounts deadlines, advanced keyboard skills, and the ability to work independently or with the team.

Qualifications

• Accounting Technician status or progress towards CCAB qualification or NVQ Level 4 in a numerate subject or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft Office qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that financial controls are maintained within Corporate Governance guidelines.
• To assist the Directorate Accountant with the production of the monthly financial statement.
• Under the direction of senior staff to have reporting responsibility for specific Directorates or Departments.
• Production of budgets for specific areas of reporting responsibility.
• Responding to queries from Directorate and Departmental Managers.
• To provide supervisory support to Band 3 and Band 2 colleagues.

Skills

Communication skills

Planning

Organisational skills

Autonomy

Education

Accounting qualification path (CCAB/NVQ4)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Assistant Accountant

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 13 November 2026

There is a new opportunity for a conscientious and motivated individual within the Financial Management team. The focus will be in the provision of financial information and analysis to Budget Holders and Senior Finance staff.

We have recently implemented a new flexible working policy to encourage hybrid working and allow you some flexibility over when you work your contracted hours.

Please ensure you have given examples of where you have met the essential criteria within the additional information section.

• Interview Date 23 November 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week (5 days per week)

Main duties of the job

• Good planning and organisational skills are essential: Required to plan own workload in line with strict departmental timetables for weekly, monthly and annual accounts
• Advanced Keyboard skills are required, with speed and accuracy
• Contributes to the production and monitoring of detailed Directorate and/or Departmental pay and non-pay expenditure and non-patient care income budgets.
• Expected to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although advice available if required as guided by the Trust's Corporate Governance policies and procedures. Work is managed rather than supervised.
• Utilises a range of financial and other reporting software products to provide Directorate Management with timely and accurate financial and supporting information. Examples include: o Design, development and maintenance of complex spreadsheets o Utilising database software for large volumes of data o Utilising supplementary systems such as Payroll Data Query (PDQ) o Working knowledge of other reporting packages

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

• To ensure that financial controls are maintained within Corporate Governance guidelines.
• To assist the Directorate Accountant with the production of the monthly financial statement.
• Under the direction of senior staff to have reporting responsibility for specific Directorates or Departments.
• Production of budgets for specific areas of reporting responsibility.
• Responding to queries from Directorate and Departmental Managers.
• To provide supervisory support to Band 3 and Band 2 colleagues.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• Accounting Technician status or be progressing towards a CCAB accountancy qualification or NVQ Level 4 in a numerate subject or equivalent experience
• Microsoft Office Qualification or equivalent experience

Knowledge & Experience

• A good level of education in a numerate subject
• A detailed understanding of accounting procedures
• Previous NHS Finance experience
• Experience in a Finance Department
• Knowledge of NHS and non-NHS legislation and how it effects own area of work
• Knowledge of Management Accounting procedures and techniques including variance analysis
• A good working knowledge of financial and non-financial computer systems

Skills & Abilities

• Able to work autonomously to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although with advice available if required
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills are essential
• Ability to be able to work independently or part of a team, to ensure strict deadlines are adhered to
• Able to modify, structure, maintain and present financial data and information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.