Financial and Treasury Assistant

Job summary

This is a permanent role which will provide support to the Financial Control and Treasurydepartment.

The post holder will provide a high-quality cashiering service to patients, staff and customers, and deal with patient fares and patient's property in accordance with agreed principles. This function is essential in helping to ensure the Trust has sufficient cash to meet financial liabilities.

They will also support the Capital and Financial Accounting team in carrying out a range of financial accounting duties to ensure that the general ledger is accounted for promptly and accurately in line with Standing Financial Instructions.

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide a personal service to staff and patients for the issuing of petty cash, patient's fares and minor staff reimbursements and ensure the Trust records are updated in a timely and accurate manner.

Deal with patients from overseas, when accepting income from chargeable patients.

Responsible for contacting the Trust's bankers in the course of obtaining authorisation for payments made by credit / debit cards.

Responsible for recording details of all receipts and payments made by the Cashiers office, onto the Trust's financial ledger systems.

Responsible for receipting and banking Trust income and prepares documentation in preparation for submission to the bank.

Prepare and distribute manual cheques in respect of Salaries and Wages payments, and creditor payments which are considered urgent.

To assist with audits being conducted in the Financial Accounting office and contribute to the implementation of recommendations made.

To perform calculations and verifying authorisation on the reimbursement of petty cash and ensuring that VAT is calculated correctly on all cashiering transactions.

Provide cover for all cashier sites within the Trust as and when required.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

o Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

o St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

o Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

o Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.