Accounts Assistant
| Posting date: | 29 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,094.00 to £36,195.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £33094.00 - £36195.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 4YB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9196-25-1622 |
Summary
1. To understand the Trusts month-end financial reporting process and to support this process through: 1.1 Control Accounts o Responsible for an agreed set of control accounts and bank account reconciliations. o Ensuring that all control accounts assigned are reconciled promptly, accurately and that any necessary corrections are made immediately. o Ensuring that details of relevant control accounts are effectively communicated to other departments on a timely basis. o To take the lead in addressing any problems arising from the control accounts including holding meetings and agreeing procedures with departments to resolve issues if necessary. o Where appropriate to raise invoice and cheque requests. 1.2 Recharges o Being responsible for the monthly calculation and processing of specific internal recharges in accordance with the month end deadlines. o Being responsible for specific external recharges. o Ensuring external recharges are accurately reconciled and promptly billed using the appropriate VAT classification. 1.3 Accruals o Ensuring monthly accruals and provisions are calculated, processed and accurately recorded in the ledger in line with the month end timetable. 2. Responsible for the upkeep of the detailed procedure notes in relation to the month end duties outlined above. 3. Support Agreement of Balances when required. 4. Identify any opportunities for improving the tasks and procedures within your work area and implement changes and improvements to these if required. 5. Responsible for the creation and upkeep of spreadsheets and / or reports from the system, in order to support the month end duties outlined above. 6. Responsible for the preparation of specific areas of the year-end financial accounts including liaising with other departments. 7. To provide and receive sensitive or contentious information, including undertaking all, or a combination of, complex calculations for the Staff-Bank accruals, agreement of balance exercise reconciliations when required and complex deposit and control account reconciliations. 8. To be responsible for completing reconciliations and accruals, ensuring reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner which may require persuasive, motivational, negotiating skills to influence staff outside of the Financial Accounts team, and outside of Finance, to resolve issues which they have not prioritized in their teams. 9 Plan and organise workload to meet agreed objectives, priorities and targets under minimal supervision. 10. To support appropriate prioritisation and allocation of work. 11. To support compliance with all performance targets and ensure work is completed to month end deadlines. 12 To carry out any other duties as may be required from time to time.