Financial Accounts Assistant - Capital

Job summary

Join Our Financial Services Team - Capital Accounting Role

An exciting opportunity awaits at Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We're looking for a motivated individual to join our Capital Accounting Team, supporting the delivery of high-quality financial services across Estates, IT, and Clinical teams.

With a 2025/26 capital budget of £32 million, this role offers the chance to work on impactful projects that shape the future of our hospitals. You'll play a key part in supporting the Assistant Financial Accountant for Capital, ensuring accurate and timely financial management.

What we're looking for:

Ability to manage your own workload and meet tight deadlines.

Strong communication skills to engage effectively with non-finance colleagues.

Proficiency in Excel and a keen eye for detail.

What we offer:

A hybrid working model with a structured blend of office and home working (following induction).

Opportunities to train for a professional qualification via the apprenticeship route.

Access to Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Financial Staff Development (FSD) training resources.

If you're ready to take on a dynamic role in a supportive team and make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Key Skills Required

• Strong understanding of accounting principles and procedures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective planning, organisational, and time management abilities.

• Assist in maintaining and updating the Trust's Fixed Asset Register.
• Contribute to month-end capital reporting, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Coordinate the twice-yearly asset verification process.
• Maintain accurate capital asset codes and manage asset disposals.
• Prepare and post journals for capital additions and depreciation.
• Liaise with internal and external auditors.
• Produce working papers to support year-end audits.
• Generate budget statements for capital scheme leads.
• Reconcile the Fixed Asset Register with the finance ledger.
• Input additions, enhancements, and adjustments into the Asset Register, ensuring a full audit trail and alignment with the general ledger.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.