Band 6 Assistant Senior Financial Accountant

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Band 6 Assistant Senior Financial Accountant to join the financial accounts team in Birmingham. The role involves the preparation of financial reports, managing debtors and creditors, and assisting with annual accounts. Ideal candidates will have relevant NHS experience and a degree-level qualification. Support for CCAB accountancy qualification is available.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a line manager within a public sector finance section.
• Relevant NHS financial accounting experience.
• Experience of working in a high-pressure environment and meeting strict deadlines.
• Previous experience of working on the annual statutory accounts for an NHS trust or foundation trust.
• Working with financial systems in a large organisation.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the preparation of the finance pack for the trust.
• Analysis of debtors and creditors for the trust.
• Preparation of the annual accounts and supporting working papers.

Skills

Specialist financial accounting knowledge

Experience of NHS ledger systems

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent (eg AAT)

Job description

Band 6 Assistant Senior Financial Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the financial accounts team at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT. This role will provide the successful candidate with experience across the financial accounts service, including reporting on debtors and creditors, maintenance of the trust's asset register and supporting the production of annual accounts for both the trust and its charitable fund. The successful candidate will be passionate about ensuring the financial accounts function supports the rest of the finance team, and the wider trust, in delivering their objectives.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, the post holder will be responsible for the preparation of the finance pack for the trust. The work includes the analysis of debtors and creditors for the trust, and the completion of other agreed financial accounts journals at month end.

The post holder will assist in the monthly monitoring of expenditure against the capital programme, the reporting of capital expenditure and the preparation and maintenance of the trust's capital asset register.

The post holder will assist with the preparation of the annual accounts, supporting working papers, and monthly returns to NHS England (NHSE) for the trust and assist in the preparation of the annual Charitable Accounts for the Trust.

The post holder will lead on the quarterly agreement of balances exercises and will have close working relationships with senior managers within the finance and estates departments, as well as officers with the shared services provider East Lancashire Financial Services ELFS, the Government Banking Service, the Trust's commercial bankers, other NHS trusts, payroll, and internal and external audit.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

The financial accounts team, which sits within the wider corporate finance function, is vital in ensuring that the trust's balance sheet is managed and reported effectively, and that wider month- and year-end reporting, is completed accurately and in line with technical requirements.

The team comprises five posts, working face-to-face in the office for two days a week, with regular support via phone and Microsoft Teams while working from home. The finance team is accredited to level 2 by 'Future Focused Finance' and support is available for the successful candidate to continue their journey towards a CCAB accountancy qualification.

For job description and detailed responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (eg AAT)

Experience

• Significant experience as a line manager within a public sector finance section
• Relevant NHS financial accounting experience
• Experience of working in a high-pressure environment and meeting strict deadlines
• Previous experience of working on the annual statutory accounts for an NHS trust or foundation trust
• Working with financial systems in a large organisation

Skills

• Specialist financial accounting knowledge
• Experience of NHS ledger systems

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.