Graduate Finance Trainee

NHS; Tooting, London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a thriving Foundation Trust as a Graduate Finance Trainee, where you will gain invaluable experience in financial services. This role offers a unique opportunity to rotate through various finance departments, enhancing your skills in both financial and management accounts. You'll be supported in your journey toward professional accountancy qualifications while contributing to a respected healthcare organization. Embrace the chance to work in a collaborative environment that values excellence, kindness, responsibility, and respect. If you're eager to learn and grow in the finance sector, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent required for the Finance Trainee Accountant role.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for management accounts and financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and policies.

Skills

Time management

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Influencing skills

Negotiating skills

IT skills

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Go back St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Graduate Finance Trainee

The closing date is 12 May 2025

The Finance Trainee Accountant will be accountable to the Finance Manager for delivering the financial services for the Trust. The role will rota around the finance department in order to gain the necessarily skills and experiences as required by their accounting body, covering both financial and management accounts departments

The role will work effectively across a multi-disciplinary team and maintain good communication networks within the finance department, budget holders and suppliers.

The role will produce financial information in accordance to strict timetables and short deadlines, ensuring that standing financial instructions and standing orders are adhered to.

The post holder will be required to study for their professional Accountancy qualifications. This post will be part of the Apprenticeship scheme working towards a Level 7 in Finance and will therefore spend 20% of the time training. This can be both formal training provided by an external body and in-house and on-the-job training. There will be full support towards a professional accountancy qualification. Continued employment will be subject to successful completion of exams and work performance.

Main duties of the job

Management Accounts

• Ensuring monthly accruals and prepayments are posted and accurate supporting documentation is maintained for these journals.
• Ensuring the budget statements are produced in line with the department's monthly timetable.
• Access data from a variety of sources in order to produce variance analysis reports for budget holders and senior managers.
• Supporting the Assistant Director of Finance (Financial Management) in the production of the Finance Report to the Board
• Responding to queries from Budget Holders
• Ensuring that budgets are set in accordance with agreed business plans
• Assisting in the preparation of business plans, business cases and service change proposals, incorporating trend and risk analysis providing support to the decision-making process across complex ranges of options.
• Assisting in the production of a monthly forecast of income and expenditure.
• Accurately and promptly completing reconciliations of suspense and control accounts
• Creditor invoice entry, invoice processing, purchase order processing and dealing with queries from suppliers.
• Raising invoices to debtors, collection of income and dealing with queries on outstanding debts
• Maintenance of cashbooks and cashflow forecasting
• Assisting in the preparation of the annual accounts

About us

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

Job responsibilities

• To have responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of staff and others and to comply at all times with the requirements of the Health and safety regulations.
• To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
• To work in accordance with the Trusts policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote good race relations and diversity in the workplace. To positively promote at all times equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment for patients and staff in accordance with the Trusts policies, to ensure that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, martial status, race, religion, creed, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
• To comply with the St George's Health care no smoking policy
• To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.
• This job description is not an exhaustive document but is a reflection of the current position. Details and emphasis may change in line with service needs after consultation with the post-holder.
• To comply with St. Georges Healthcare No Smoking Policies.
• To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent

Skills

• Time management & organisation skills o Analytical skills o Organisational skills o Communication and presentation skills o Influencing & negotiating skills oGood IT skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge of accounting principles

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.

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust