Assistant Business Support and Costing Accountant
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407.00 to £34,581.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407.00 - £34581.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sleaford, NG34 8GG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9274-24-0357 |
Summary
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details Produce Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) and Service Line Reporting (SLR), ensuring that the Trusts mandatory national returns are submitted accurately in accordance with national guidance and timescales. Work with clinical/service managers to develop and agree cost apportionment methods to be used within PLICS and SLR reporting, ensuring these are refreshed periodically as required. Support the Head of Costing in the use and management of data held within the Trusts financial costing system, including reporting. Provide support to clinical and service managers in the understanding and use of costing information, participating in meetings and answering queries as required. Support and be involved in the production of timely, accurate and reliable financial information in line with the month end and annual reporting processes. Provide analysis of significant YTD variances and key drivers of divisional financial performance, whilst ensuring a detailed review of transactions is carried out to inform the accurate forecasting of future transactions of both the Trusts Income & Expenditure and Statement of Financial Position accounts. Work alongside the Business Support Accountants to ensure that established budgets accurately reflect the financial plans submitted to the Trusts independent regulator, whilstensuring that managers are able to understand and use the budgets to effectively manage services. To assist the Business Support Accountants in providing service managers with financial management support, including analysing variances, forecasting income, expenditure and working capital transactions and ensuring that service managers fully understand the financial performance of their services. Support the Business Support Accountants in enhancing the financial understanding and awareness of service managers and non finance staff through working within service teams to provide advice and guidance. Support in the monitoring and reporting of the Trusts efficiency schemes through providing financial advice to managers to ensure that efficiencies generated are achievable, closely monitored and remain in line with plans. Provide service managers with ad hoc financial support including, but not limited to, analysis and explanation of budget reports, budget virements and skill mix calculations etc. Support in the production and financial appraisal of business cases working closely with service managers to ensure costs proposed are supported by accurate information and assumptions to ensure decision making bodies are presented with sufficient financial information to make a clear and informed decision on proposals. Support the operational finance team in completing the agreement of balances exercise ensuring that all transactions on the financial ledger system are reported and agreed upon by counter parties. Work closely with the finance team to ensure maintenance of the integrity and accuracy of financial reports alongside developing financial information produced to meet the evolving needs of clinical /service managers.