Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Financial Transactions
- Within the standard operating procedures and Trust's Standing Financial Instructions assist the Finance Manager in the monthly monitoring of the general ledger to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data prior to distribution to the Head of MI&A team.
- Review financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded to meet audit requirements.
- Upload budget journals including SLR budget journals and WTE budgets.
- Monthly reconciliation of budget movements, forecast movements and balance sheet.
- Monthly reconciliation of the payroll files with ESR and liaising with the ESR team and Business Support Officers to ensure that errors are corrected at source.
- Process payroll recoding, accrual, prepayment, recharge and amendment journals accurately and in a timely manner and that the suitable supporting documentation is maintained.
- Raising invoices as requested ensuring these are accurately coded.
- Liaising with the Finance Business Partners support the Trust's recruitment control process and prepare AtoE forms as informed by the Senior Finance Analysts.
- Provide monthly reports to HR, Finance Business Partners and Senior Finance Manager to support the month end and year end processes.
- Covers other Assistant Finance Analyst roles when required.
Person specification
Qualification
- NVQ Level 4 or Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) at Technician level or CCAB Foundation stage or equivalent experience relevant to the role.
Skills & experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and maintain a high standard of work
- Experience of Microsoft Office
- Ability to work as part of a team and maintain good working relationships with large and diverse staff group
- Experience within management accounts
Desirable criteria
- Worked with Power BI
- Previous NHS experience
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust Values
- Attention to detail and able to use judgement to spot anomalies or variances to trends
- Able to work under pressure and to plan and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to reflect on own performance and recognise areas of development.
Desirable criteria
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Documents to download
- JD and person specification ( PDF , 352.4 KB )
- Secondment Pledge ( PDF , 144.6 KB )
- Denmark Hill Site Map ( PDF , 1.2 MB )
- Visa and Sponsorship Information ( PDF , 344.6 KB )