Finance Officer

NHS; Nantgarw; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wales is seeking a motivated individual to join its Financial Accounting team. The successful candidate will support the Financial Accountant, managing accounts receivable and ensuring compliance with financial policies. Candidates should hold an AAT Technician Level qualification and have experience in finance within complex organizations, ideally in an NHS setting. This role offers the chance to broaden accountancy skills in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Corporate induction

Welcome itinerary

Opportunity to impact health services

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a finance environment in a complex organisation.
• Working with NHS finance procedures.
• Ability to manage and recover external debts.

Responsibilities

• Support the Financial Accountant in financial tasks.
• Administer the Accounts Receivable system.
• Assist in maintaining financial accounting processes.

Skills

Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures

Sound knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Effective communication of financial issues

Ability to work in a team

Methodical and highly organised

Education

AAT Technician Level or equivalent experience

Tools

ORACLE

Qlikview

Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual to join the Financial Accounting team within Health Education and Improvement Wales. The post will support the Financial Accountant in providing a high-quality service to the finance team and the wider organisation. The role will give the individual experience of a wide-range of financial tasks and is a great opportunity to broaden their accountancy skills.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for a wide range of tasks including: -

• Administration and maintenance of the Accounts Receivable system, including the management and recovery of external debts.
• Contributing to the Accounts Payable processes through resolving queries with invoices, maintaining invoice on hold reports and monitoring compliance of the Public Sector Payment Policy (PSPP) targets.
• Assisting the Financial Accountant in maintaining the financial accounting processes, including ensuring all transactions are properly recorded within the ORACLE system.
• Preparing and inputting journals for entry into the general ledger.
• Undertaking monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assisting in the production of working papers for the HEIW Annual Report.
• Assisting in the Agreement of Balances exercise for the Health Board in accordance with the timetable.
• Managing the Scheme of delegation and approval levels and ensuring the financial system reflects the authorised position.

The post holder will also be required to provide support to other roles within the Finance Department and other departments within HEIW as necessary.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,

- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,

- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,

- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,

- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Technician Level or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of working within a finance environment in a complex organisation
• Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures and NHS finance procedures
• Sound knowledge/user of Microsoft Excel and Word
• Working in an NHS finance setting
• Knowledge of ORACLE and Qlikview systems

Values

• Able to make effective use of available resources to analyse problems and evaluate solutions
• Self-motivated and innovative thinker
• Methodical and highly organised
• Able to meet and uphold HEIW values

Other

• Used to working / is able to work in a busy open-plan environment
• Ability to speak Welsh
• Able to plan and organise your own workload
• Flexible and team-based approach to work
• Ability to review and determine areas of work that could benefit from improvement
• Ability to communicate detailed financial issues in a clear and straightforward manner
• Produces work with attention to detail

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.