Costing & Service Line Reporting (SLR) Analyst
| Posting date: | 13 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 November 2025 |
| Location: | Huntingdon, PE29 6FH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0988 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. Reporting Financial Information for the National Cost Collection and Service Line Reporting 1. Provide the costing input to the key annual financial exercises e.g. the National Cost Collection (PLICS), benchmarking and other analysis for the annual accounts. 2. Develop and maintain the costing and reporting system (Synergy 4), including updating and maintaining appropriate allocation methods following review with both Clinical and Non-Clinical Leads within the Trust. 3. Regularly engage with and seek information from Clinical Leads to understand the services and interpret outputs from the costing system. 4. Regularly provide complex financial information and advice to colleagues. 5. Regularly analyse complex data, checking and reconciling financial information, complete calculations and investigate and advise/answer queries from staff and Managers, some of which may be contentious. 6. Develop, use and maintain the Trusts costing and reporting systems (Synergy 4), in addition to the use of complex electronic spread sheets and financial ledger systems (Oracle), and be able to present financial and other activity/outcome information. 7. To analyse, investigate and present financial information and queries, which will be frequently complex in respect of expenditure trends. 8. Adapt and reform the Trusts costing system and the costing reporting tool to meet the specification and needs of others including Service Managers and other Stakeholders. 9. Review methods of cost allocation, apportionment and absorption ensuring they follow National standards and guidance. This will require in-depth specialist knowledge of the National Cost Collection. 10. Calculate costs for services to meet local and statutory requirements within agreed timescales. 11. Identify and challenge the status quo within own area of responsibility, finding new ways of working, advising on the economic, efficient and effective use of financial resources within the organisation. 12. Support costing of services for new developments, reconfigurations, and contract pricing as required. 13. Support users of the costing information and service line reporting to understand key information, using specialist knowledge and experience to present recommendations, providing advice to negotiate, influence and persuade future courses of action where there may be barriers to understanding and acceptance of recommendations. 14. Liaise with NHSE&I appointed auditors for the National Cost Collection, where required, providing evidence of data sources, procedures and methodology used in the supply of information to the Board and external agencies. 15. Promote both service line reporting and patient level costing to the Trust, including formal presentation of data where required to groups of Manager and/or Clinicians, using relevant presentational aids.