Treasury Officer

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Treasury Officer to join the Treasury Team, reporting to the Treasury Manager, to help complete annual accounts on time and coordinate with the External Auditor for clean audit outcomes. The role may be based at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Women's Hospital, or performed remotely from home.

A key duty is ensuring Cashier Offices are staffed within approved hours and providing customer service to patients and

Qualifications

• GCSE Math and English at grade C or above.
• AAT Technician or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Experience with cash handling and NHS finance procedures.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cashier offices are manned during opening hours and provide customer service to patients and staff.
• Analyse financial data to identify errors and resolve discrepancies.
• Reconcile balance sheet and salary deduction records and implement audit recommendations.
• Work with Internal/External Auditors to support year-end processes.

Skills

Cash handling

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Time management

Financial queries resolution

Education

GCSE Math & English

AAT Technician

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

General ledger software

Job description

Go back Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Treasury Officer

The closing date is 28 September 2026

Working as part of a Treasury Team and reporting to the Treasury Manager to ensure all work associated with the Trust and subsidiaries (the Group) Annual Accounts are completed within the defined timetable. This will involve working with the Group's External Auditor to ensure that all information is correct and that the Group not only fulfills its financial duties but achieves an unqualified audit reports.

Dependent on the needs of the business the Treasury duties could be carried out in the Treasury Office at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Women's Hospital or remotely from home.

A key rotational role will be to ensure the Cashiers Offices are fully manned and operational within the opening hours determined by the Chief Financial Officer. There is a Cashiers Office located in both the Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital. Dependent on the needs of the business cover needs to be given to both sites. The Cashier role involves Customer Service to patients, staff and liaising with Cash carriers.

Work with the Trust's Internal Auditors when the Treasury Department is audited, sharing processes and procedures. This will require implementing any proposed recommendations within agreed timescales.

Main duties of the job

Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies. There are both balance sheet reconciliations and salary deduction reconciliations requiring different processes.

Analyses financial data to identify errors and rectifies problems from a range of options. This could be errors identified on Petty Cash reconciliations that have been incorrectly receipted to the Finance Ledger that need correcting or payroll entries being posted to wrong control accounts.

Various salary deduction schemes require complex calculations about payments and decisions whether and how to pursue over/underpayments on these Schemes need to be made e.g. Travel cards, childcare, salary sacrifice.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE Math & English Grade C or above
• AAT Technician or equivalent experience and theoretical knowledge

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Experience in Cash Handling
• Detailed understanding of accounting procedures such as reconciliations, coding structures, procedures
• A practical working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and experience using a computerised general ledger
• Experience of working in an NHS Finance environment with a Shared Service Provider

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies
• Analyses financial data to identify errors and sorts out problems from a range of options
• Carries out complex calculations about payments and decides whether and how to pursue over/underpayments

Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge

• Liaise with Treasury Manager to ensure Cashier office is manned during opening times
• Detailed understanding of accounting procedures to Technician Level

Personal Skills / Abilities and Attributes

• The ability to work under minimal supervision and direction
• Neat and precise methods of working, including the maintenance of complete and accurate filing and record systems, both manual and computerised
• The ability to use initiative in fulfilling and completing tasks
• Excellent time management skills to manage workload within time frames
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Ability to resolve difficult situations under pressure

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.

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