Senior Finance Assistant | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	01 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£31,944 - £34,937 per annum inc HCA
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	31 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	London, SE1 4YB
Cwmni:	Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7299789/196-AC908

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within Assisted Conception Unit (ACU) Finance Team for a full time finance assistant to join our busy team.


This is an exciting and challenging role within the ACU finance team in which the post holder would have an opportunity to make a direct positive
impact on patient experience within the Trust.


The ACU offers a full range of fertility services including IVF/ICSI/Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Fertility Preservation. The service offers NHS, Self Funded, and Personalised Private Care.

Reporting to the ACU Finance Team Manager, the Senior Finance Assistant will be responsible for the recording of all income activity, the
management and processing of ACU Finance billing, the financial control and recording of patient payments in advance of treatment, and the
resolution of related queries. The post holder will be required to plan and organise their workload to meet agreed objectives under minimal
supervision.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Finance Operations
• Activity reporting- Interrogate BabySentry (BBS) and extract clinical activity data to enable weekly and monthly reporting to
management.
• Ensure that all activity is billed in the month
◦ Theatre activity
◦ Non-theatre activity, such as Embryo & Sperm freezes
◦ Follow ups and new appointments
• To take the lead in reviewing the ACU deposit control account, following up with Financial Accounts (FA) to ensure that it is regularly
reconciled and that reconciling items are actioned and resolved. Take the lead to agree actions and procedures to address recurring
problems and issues and follow up in regular review meetings.
• To understand the Trust’s month end financial reporting process and to support this process through adherence to personal and team
processing deadlines, reconciliation of financial information and the prompt resolution of queries.
• To interrogate and analyse patient treatment activity and finance transaction records across different computer systems to resolve
complex queries and discrepancies. Liaising with other areas to correct transactions where required.
• Investigating accounts and raising credit notes and refunds, ensuring that they are correctly authorised and processed according to
Trust procedures and policies.
• Provide expert advice on activity reporting, payment and billing processing and use of key systems BabySentry (BBS), Compucare and
Oracle Fusion to ACU Finance.
• Input financial data across multiple data systems with speed and accuracy, requiring concentration over long periods.
• To interrogate and update BabySentry (BBS) ensuring accuracy of storage contract dates evidenced by corresponding documentation.


Planning and Organisation
• Plan and organise workload to meet agreed objectives, priorities and targets under minimal supervision.
• Able to document processes and identify controls.
• Clearly understand policies and procedures whereby work is managed rather than supervised.
• To support appropriate prioritisation and allocation of work within the ACU Finance Team.
• To support compliance with all performance targets and ensure work is completed to month end deadlines.


Communication
• Communicate with patients primarily by telephone to resolve complex and sensitive complaints, queries and disputes.
• Communicate effectively with patients and staff ensuring empathy and sensitivity at all times.
• To always handle confidential patient information and material in a sensitive and discrete fashion, in compliance with Trust policy and
procedure.
• Communicate effectively with FA and ITC and cashiers to resolve queries, provide information and to correct transactions where
required.
• To ensure quality, accuracy and timeliness of all transaction processing, reporting issues to the ACU Finance Team Manager.
• To support key processes and controls within the ACU Finance team and to ensure that processes are properly documented and
followed.
• To support compliance with all performance targets and adherence to month end deadlines.


Problem Solving and Service Development
• Ability to understand, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies.
• To identify and report issues affecting the accuracy and timeliness of transaction processing to the ACU Finance Team Manager.
• Able to propose changes and improvements to procedures, processes and working practices affecting ACU Finance.


This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025