Assistant Divisional Finance Advisor

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Finance professional to join the Financial Management team. The post holder will assist in providing accurate financial information for the Trust’s Divisions and ensure timely processing in line with timetables and Standing Financial Instructions.

The role covers budgeting support, posting journals, accruals and reconciliations, and using finance systems to extract and report information for month-end and divisional performance.

Job description

The post holder will assist the Financial Management team in the provision of accurate financial information. The post holder will ensure that all work is completed, either directly or by staff under their supervision, in line with both local & national timetables and the Trust's Standing Financial Orders and Instructions The post holder will be assisting in the provision of a Financial Management service to the Trust's Divisions. This will involve ensuring that all financial information relating to these Divisions is correctly processed. The post holders will also provide effective financial support and advice to the Divisions, Ø Producing and assisting in the development of a accurate monthly budgetary and associated information Ø Reporting to the DDFM upon the monthly performance of a range of designated budgets highlighting any significant movements. Ø Where appropriate help, support and advise budget managers on a range of budgets within the Division. Ø Support Innovation and the Finance 'Continuous Improvement' Agenda in day to day working., Production of accurate monthly budgetary and associated information

• The accurate coding of prime documents including completing expenditure journals and budget journals up to the point of authorisation and posting.
• Action all budget adjustments requested by your senior colleagues
• The calculation of expenditure accruals and recharges, both internal and external.
• The checking of ELFS Shared Services expenditure accruals.
• Ensure that invoice requests are raised promptly for any direct divisional income streams.
• Carry out the reconciliation of the establishments between the Finance ledger system and the Trusts Personnel Information System.
• Inputs and maintains financial information into computer databases and spreadsheets to a high level of efficiency. This will cover both the designated Division and some office wide tasks. Clearing of error suspense and uploading of payroll information is included here.
• Use of various computer systems / software packages for retrieving, analysing and reporting on financial information.
• Send out all relevant month end budget statements and associated information to budget managers in line with the set timetable.
• Maintaining the integrity of the coding structure at all times.
• To assist at an appropriate level, the Head of Financial Management and DDFMs in