Budget Accountant

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Great Yarmouth is looking for a financial assistant to ensure accurate budget management and financial reporting. Responsibilities include preparing budget statements, conducting meetings, and reconciling accounts. The ideal candidate will help manage various financial processes and contribute to the administration of specific car schemes. Commitment to inclusivity and improving working lives is emphasized. Flexible working options are available.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the production of accurate and timely budget statements each month.
• Conduct routine and annual budget-setting meetings.
• Prepare monthly accruals and prepayments for the teams' directorates.
• Investigate and reconcile specific balance sheet suspense accounts.
• Administer the Trust's In House Salary Sacrifice Lease Car Scheme.
• Perform various routine and ad hoc monthly tasks including funding requests.
• Raise invoices to external agencies and track income.
• Adjust invalid revenue code allocations and maintain the financial coding system.
• Investigate and adjust ledger discrepancies from NHS systems.
• Control and maintain the office filing system in liaison with other Budget Accountants.
• Undertake ad hoc projects and assist in other accounting areas.

Job description

Responsibilities

1. To assist in the production of accurate and timely budget statements each month and to assist in the annual budget-setting process for the Trust, including conducting routine and annual budget-setting meetings with holders of the smaller budgets., 1. To assist the DSA to provide financial and statistical information and advice to Clinical Directorates and other hospital departments.
2. To assist in the production of accurate and timely budget statements each month and to assist in the annual budget-setting process for the Trust, including conducting routine and annual budget-setting meetings with holders of the smaller budgets.
3. To work with minimal supervision to prepare monthly accruals and prepayments for the teams' directorates.
4. To investigate and reconcile specific balance sheet suspense accounts directly impacting on the Management Accounts Department.
5. To be responsible for the day to day administration of the Trust's In House Salary Sacrifice Lease Car Scheme, and the Lease Car Scheme provided by NHS Fleet.
6. To work with minimal supervision to perform various routine and ad hoc monthly tasks, including the requesting of funding from reserves, the balancing of those reserves, the reconciliation of reserves to recurrent budgets, the achievement and coding of savings.
7. To take an active part in raising invoices to external agencies, and to assist in tracking, coding and reconciling income.
8. To investigate and adjust invalid revenue code allocations and to assist in the maintenance and development of the financial coding system.
9. To investigate and adjust ledger discrepancies arising from direct transmissions from the NHS Supplies and Pharmacy computer systems and from the Payroll system.
10. To control and maintain the office filing system in liaison with the other Budget Accountants.
11. To undertake ad hoc projects and to assist in any other accounting areas as necessary.

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children’s service.

Patient and staff experience

Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:

• Putting patients first
• Aiming to get it right
• Recognising that everybody counts
• Doing everything openly and honestly