Finance Officer - Cash and Control

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a candidate to support the financial services team. You will ensure accurate financial processes, assist in VAT accounting, reconcile control accounts, and communicate financial policies. This role emphasizes a detailed understanding of accounting and proactive contributions to reporting. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of accounting procedures including reconciliations, VAT payments and deductions.
• Proactively contribute to monthly financial reporting processes and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile complex control accounts with supporting working papers each month.
• Monitor and clear suspense and recharge codes in accordance with month end timetable.
• Communicate finance policies to colleagues ensuring compliance with Trust SFIs.

Skills

Understanding of accounting procedures

Reconciliations

VAT payments and deductions

Communication skills

Job description

A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This role supports the financial services team in delivering accurate and timely financial processes, in line with organisational policies and statutory requirements. It involves ensuring financial information is processed correctly, investigating and resolving queries, and providing guidance to colleagues and stakeholders. The position also contributes to maintaining compliance with financial controls and deadlines, while promoting best practices across the team.

37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, No on call.

Please note that this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received. We encourage interested candidates to apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Working as part of a team the post holder will contribute to the efficient operation of the Financial Services team ensuring that control accounts are reconciled monthly and suspense accounts and recharge codes are cleared in accordance with internal timetables. The post holder will assist in the maintenance of the Trust’s banking facilities bank mandates, receipting of income and assist with the completion of VAT accounting processes in accordance with statutory deadlines. The post will be responsible for completing several year-end working papers to support the production of year end statutory accounts.

Each member of the team will be allocated specific day to day tasks but will be expected to rotate duties on a periodic basis and cover for colleagues as and when appropriate.

Choose Well – Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.

• People at the Heart
• Listen and Involve
• Kind and Respectful
• ONE Team

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting [e-mail] where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.

Responsibilities

• To have a detailed understanding of accounting procedures including reconciliations, VAT payments and deductions and coding structures.
• Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust’s monthly financial reporting processes, KPIs and allocated tasks within the monthly, quarterly, annual reporting cycle.
• Responsible for reconciling complex control accounts with supporting working papers each month, ensuring any unreconciled items are promptly investigated and resolved.
• Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense and recharge codes ensuring all entries and cleared in accordance with the month end timetable.
• Communicate to finance and organisational colleagues finance related policies and procedures ensuring that these are in line with Trust SFIs (Standing Financial Instructions).
• Responsible for reviewing balance sheet transactions and providing advice and guidance where entries have been incorrectly coded and ensuring steps are taken to prevent future errors arising.
• Responsible for the completion of several working papers to substantiate t figures reported in the Trust Annual Accounts.
• Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions.
• Responsible for receipting of trust income received directly into the trust bank account and resolving any unallocated cash by raising and addressing queries with relevant colleagues
• Responsible for the completion of monthly bank account reconciliation.
• Co-ordination of petty cash balances at year end to support the completion and reporting of year end cash balances.
• Liaise with internal/external auditors providing information as required.
• Continually seek to identify areas for improvement within Financial Services and propose procedures to facilitate this while understanding the impact of the section’s work on other areas of the Finance department.
• Analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries, identifying solutions from a range of options.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025