Finance Apprentice

NHS Jobs; Preston; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Preston invites applications for a finance role within the Trust's financial services team. The role covers accounts receivable, accounts payable, budget monitoring and monthly reporting to budget holders, with emphasis on accuracy and timely delivery.

You will work with colleagues across directorates to maintain ledger integrity, prepare ad hoc analyses, and support post and filing processes to ensure high-quality financial information for decision making.

Job description

Financial Services Working within the following teams, tasks as appropriate:

• Accounts Receivable - dealing with bringing income into the Trust via our billing out to customers for general services, pharmacy, overseas visitors and private patients just to name a few.
• Accounts Payable - dealing with invoices received by the Trust, query resolution and statement reconciliations. Also reviewing payments out including payment runs of various types, manual payments and other payments of this nature.
• Technical Team - looking at Trust cash flow and control accounts to learning about management of the balance sheet.
• Financial Management Ensure that monthly reports of the budgetary positionare issued to budget holders by the deadline set.
• Maintain budgets & control accounts each month,clearly identifying recurrent and non-recurrentchanges in accordance with agreed timetable.
• Review budgetary information. Assist with the monitoring of performance againstbudget during the year, identify and analysevariances and / or discrepancies.
• Information Collection and Analysis Inputs data into relevant spreadsheets Provide detailed ad hoc reports and analysis as requested by finance and non-finance colleagues
• Information processing Organising incoming and outgoing post, referring enquiries to appropriate person if necessary
• Filing of reports and statements Ensure that all budgetary information is accurately entered into the General Ledger system
• Communication Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other individuals within the Directorate, other officers of the Trust, colleaguesfrom the NHS and officers from other agencies to deliver a quality service focused on achieving a high level of customer satisfaction Be a point of contact for enquiries as appropriate, referring where necessary to more senior staff.