Band 3 Financial Accounts Assistant | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 October 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B7 4BN |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6685234/820-6516600-COR-A |
Summary
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our financial accounts team on a permanent basis. This role will give the successful candidate a broad range of experience within a financial accounts function and provide a solid foundation for a career in NHS finance. We are committed to the development of our finance team, and will support the successful candidate in continuing their accountancy studies.
The successful candidate will have completed at least AAT level 3, or equivalent, with relevant experience in a finance office or similar environment. The ideal candidate will have good working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and possess excellent written and oral communication skills. The finance department is continuously looking for ways in which to improve the service we provide to the wider trust, so it is important for the post holder to be able to use their initiative to resolve problems and identify opportunities for improvement
Key responsibilities:
• Receive and analyse information in order to undertake monthly reconciliations of control accounts, identifying errors and discrepancies,
and taking appropriate actions to clear reconciling balances.
• Carry out recording of income and expenditure in relation to the Trust’s charitable fund quickly and accurately, raising queries with the
Trust’s Charity Manager where required, and counting and processing cash and cheque donations to the charity.
• Preparing regular finance reports for the charitable fund to be presented to the charitable funds committee, and the annual accounts for
the charitable fund for review by the Financial Accountant.
• Carry out recording of income and expenditure in relation to the Trust’s hosted organisation (Partners in Paediatrics), raising orders and
resolving queries with relevant staff as required.
• To assist in the preparation of Trust month end reports and annual statutory accounts, as required.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for assisting the Financial Accounting Team in the production of accurate and timely financial information. This will involve the processing of financial information on the general ledger, the analysis of income and expenditure transactions and support to the Financial Accounting Team with the month end and annual accounts processes for the Trust, its associated charitable fund and hosted organisation (Partners in Paediatrics)
All duties are to be carried out in accordance with the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions and internal office procedures
Please see the job description for full details of the job and main responsibilities
This advert closes on Friday 4 Oct 2024