Senior Finance and Projects Support Officer
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,602.00 to £39,686.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £32602.00 - £39686.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 November 2025 |
| Location: | Woking, GU21 5BH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9074-25-0069 |
Summary
Purpose The role of Senior Finance and Projects Support Officer is to be responsible for managing financial administrative duties such as financial auditing, data analysis and reporting. In addition, this role will also support projects such as placement coordination and implementation. The post holder will work with the L&D Manager & Placement Education Lead, to scope additional funding opportunities for innovative and or income generative projects and opportunities which will ensure that Central Surrey Health (CSH Surrey) colleagues are the at fore front of service provision. Principal duties and responsibilities: As Senior Finance and Project Support Officer you will be responsible for the monitoring and updating of all L&D financial activity including Integrated Care System (ICS) / NHS England (NHSE) funding, project generated income, apprenticeship levy and other training allocation on behalf of CSH Surrey and associated partner organisations, ensuring audit worthy financial record keeping underpinning L&D Manager strategic reporting requirements. To co-ordinate and manage financial tasks for the L&D team. This includes raising requisitions and sale orders, process external training requests, process invoices and receipts, working with Finance team and the L&D Manager on the monthly journal and budget. As Senior Finance and Project Support Officer you will work closely with the Placement Education Lead providing student placement and apprentice advice and support as required, including co-ordinating work experience opportunities with both clinical and non-clinical teams. Assist in quality monitoring review audits for example: quarterly commissioning return, Talent for Care return, annual demand scoping as required by NHSE. To create and produce project initiation documents, project plans, project reports, risk and issues log and other documents Financial analysis/ data processing responsibilities: Support the L&D Manager with data processing of NHSE training commissions. To maintain quarterly Education Contract funding database to ensure accuracy of detail, status of those undertaking training, estimation of placement tariff To maintain the audit worthy (accurate) finance database of funding pots, appropriate allocation and accurate balances To co-ordinate the training and development opportunities within the scope of the financial envelope that is available to CSH Surrey. To support opportunities for additional funding that will enhance the financial envelope available to CSH Surrey and therefore increase availability to support further development and training. To action requisitions, sale orders, purchase orders, credit card requests, invoices on SBS Oracle, monitoring and receipting as required and maintaining spend on database To maintain up to date data of budgets including expenses, support forecasting of future training and apprenticeship levy spend. To have a working knowledge of the Digital Apprenticeship Service (DAS) managing apprenticeships and understanding how the apprenticeship levy works. Programme/ Project Support: Support the L&D team with planning, delivery, review and reporting of existing and emerging project work. Support completion of education and training quality audits / Education contract / Self-Assessment to enable the organisation to meet its obligations within local contracts To co-ordinate the annual training needs analysis across all teams, scoping new courses where demanded to support the delivery of the NHS 10-year plan. Co-ordinate and support with project finance processes. To process training applications from request, approval, maintenance of training database, supporting and advise colleagues on appropriate booking process. Assist in the co-ordination, planning and implementation of student placements Support management of placement capacity by maintain a database of all pre and post registration placements for nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHP), including apprenticeships. Support the collation of information and reporting of student placements on the NHSE student data collection tool. Receive work experience requests, scope potential placements, ensure application process is actioned and completed in a timely manner. Maintain database of work experience placements planned and completed ready for NHSE reporting To support the development of colleagues to undertake functional skills (numeracy and literacy) by signposting and advising on available programmes Communication and Key Working Relationship: To effectively communicate between internal and external stakeholders Liaise closely with the Finance team regarding budgets, L&D journal. Liaise closely with the Procurement team, setting up training providers, processing credit card payments. Liaise closely with People Services as part of the L&D wider team Liaise with senior managers, supporting training requirements including commissions Liaise with training providers/universities regarding training programmes/modules. Liaise closely with project partner organisations to ensure financial processes followed To be a joint contact with NHSE in relation to finance matters To support L&D team in liaising with external trainers regarding training requirements Other responsibilities: To undertake L&D admin tasks including updating ESR monitoring the Training Checklist, and Resource Schedular (Room Booking) Maybe required to undertake other administrative duties within the L&D team This job description is subject to review and development from time to time in liaison with the post holder. As an employee of CSH Surrey you will be required to adhere to all the organisations policies and procedures.