Senior Finance Assistant - CHC

Job summary

Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

To provide assistance and support to the Management Accountant/Senior Management Accountant - in the provision of finance management support.

Main duties of the job

Financial Management / Budgetary Control

To provide support to the management accountants and senior management accountants within the place team in providing comprehensive management accounting services.

Responsible for month end actions/adjustments to meet month end reporting timetable.

Support the production of financial statements for month end reporting for areas of responsibility

Support production of financial information and analysis as necessary

Where necessary maintain patient level data base for all continuing care, special placements patients and ECR's ensuring it reconciles with general ledger on a monthly basis

Meet and support budget holders to meet their financial targets

Update budgets to reflect inflation, virements and developments.

Calculate and input accruals and prepayments to ensure the financial position reported is true and fair.

Ad hoc project work including support into business cases as required.

Discuss and resolve financial queries with staff and suppliers.

Monitor, validate, challenge and process invoices and claims for payment ensuring appropriate Senior Commissioning Manager sign-off.

Monitor and prepare monthly financial statements for internal reporting.

Raise periodic invoices as required.

Control systems and Statutory Functions

Support year end accounts process, journal input, accruals and budgets.

Ensure financial procedures are adequately documented and maintained.

Provide appropriate training to new recruits in finance.

About us

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
• NHS pension scheme
• Sick pay policy
• Occupational health services including staff counselling services
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Flexible retirement
• Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.