Budget Accountant

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To assist the DSA to provide financial and statistical information and advice to Clinical Directorates and other hospital departments.

2. To assist in the production of accurate and timely budget statements each month and to assist in the annual budget-setting process for the Trust, including conducting routine and annual budget-setting meetings with holders of the smaller budgets.

3. To work with minimal supervision to prepare monthly accruals and prepayments for the teams directorates.

4. To investigate and reconcile specific balance sheet suspense accounts directly impacting on the Management Accounts Department.

5. To be responsible for the day to day administration of the Trusts In House Salary Sacrifice Lease Car Scheme, from quote to order processing.

6. To work with minimal supervision to perform various routine and ad hoc monthly tasks, including the requesting of funding from reserves, the balancing of those reserves, the reconciliation of reserves to recurrent budgets, the achievement and coding of savings.

7. To take an active part in raising invoices to external agencies, and to assist in tracking, coding and reconciling income.

8. To investigate and adjust invalid revenue code allocations and to assist in the maintenance and development of the financial coding system.

9. To investigate and adjust invalid revenue code allocations and to assist in the maintenance and development of the financial coding system.

10. To investigate and adjust ledger discrepancies arising from direct transmissions from the NHS Supplies and Pharmacy computer systems and from the Payroll system.

11. To control and maintain the office filing system in liaison with the other Budget Accountants.

12. To undertake ad hoc projects and to assist in any other accounting areas as necessary.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of general education

Desirable

• AAT qualification or similar

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive experience of computerised systems and other software packages eg. Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook
• Ability to manage own workload, and to work independently without supervision

Desirable

• Experience gained in large, complex organisation, preferably an acute or foundation NHS Trust. Ideally this would include recent Financial Management experience
• Ability to analyse and present data in Excel using pivot tables etc

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a team, providing support for colleagues as required
• Ability to liaise effectively with all levels of staff including Trust executives, senior managers and clinical staff
• Flexible approach to working day and good timekeeping and attendance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

James Paget Hospital

Lowestoft Road

Gorleston

NR31 6LA

Employer's website

https://www.jpaget.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)