Senior Finance Assistant

Job summary

We are looking for a talented individual to join our management accounts function in finance to support one of our prestigious large clinical divisions.

The Role of the Management Accounts section is to deliver Financial Budgetary Reporting and Financial Advice on budgetary control, Cost Reduction, business cases and other finance related issues to the Trust as a whole and on its constituent service areas. Part of this process involves the annual setting of service budgets of approximately £600m for the Trust and the delivery of regular financial reporting on the performance of these budgets to key managers and budget holders

Main duties of the job

The post holder will need to ensure that monthly accruals are routinely raised, reports are produced, variances investigated and managers statements promptly distributed in accordance with Trust procedures. As well as ensure that financial information is provided to budget holders in a timely, accurate and reliable manner. They will also need to investigate routine financial enquiries, providing assistance and advice as required. Additionally the post holder will need to ensure work is completed in a timely manner in accordance with Trust timetables. Finally the post holder will need to support the Divisional and Directorate Finance Managers in the budget setting process.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.