Treasury Officer

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Treasury professional to support the Group Accounts work, coordinating with the External Auditor to ensure accurate reporting and timely completion within the defined timetable.

The role involves ensuring Cashiers Offices are staffed across sites, with potential remote work from home, and collaboration with Internal Auditors to implement recommendations within agreed timescales. contact Sukey Lal for details.

Job description

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.

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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sukey Lal Job title: Treasury Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01213338281