HMT Sancta Maria Hospital

Finance Assistant

The closing date is 14 April 2026

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Finance Assistant to join our Finance Team. This is a key role supporting financial processes across hospital, central, and care home services.

You will contribute to accurate financial reporting, reconciliation processes, and data analysis to support decision-making and service improvement.

Whether you are working in one of our care homes, hospitals, or as part of our Shared Support Services team, you will find an environment that values teamwork and personal growth.

You will work alongside other passionate professionals who are committed to providing the best care. We foster a collaborative and supportive approach to learning that helps everyone succeed.

Our benefits include:

  • Competitive pay
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Employer pension contribution
  • Wellbeing support
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Recruitment referral scheme
  • Continuous learning
  • Career progression
  • Flexible working options
  • 27 Days Annual Leave (Plus Bank holidays)
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay

Main duties of the job

  • Assist with month-end processes, including journals and reconciliations

  • Support Income & Expenditure and Balance Sheet reviews

  • Perform bank reconciliations and control account checks

  • Analyse financial data and produce reports for stakeholders

  • Work with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to improve reporting

  • Assist in budgeting and forecasting processes

  • Monitor financial performance and highlight risks or variances

  • Support process improvements across finance systems

  • Ensure accuracy of debtor, creditor, and income reconciliations

About us

At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are obsessed with achieving our Vision, to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services. Our Purpose is, to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.

We aim to provide services which value collaboration and place our residents, patients and people at the heart of all we do. We will always do the right thing for our residents, patients and people. We will be outwardly connected to the most innovative practices and service offerings in the market. We will do things differently and will be bold with our ambition to change things for the better.

We are passionate about what we do and so are our people. Bringing their most authentic selves to work and seeking joy and fun in what we do. We will deliver care and clinical interactions compassionately and tailor them to individual needs. We achieve this by living our business Values each and every day:

  • We are caring
  • We are enterprising
  • We are resourceful
  • We are authentic
  • We are accountable

Details

Date posted

09 April 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,643 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0013-26-0013

Job locations

Sancta Maria Hospital

Lamberts Road

Swansea

West Glamorgan

SA1 8FD


Job description

Job responsibilities

Analysing multiple sets of data from various accounting/financial systems to produce relevant analysis and summary reports

Work with the Finance and Commercial Business Partner, Care Home Managers and Finance Team to develop, implement and manage departmental Management Information, across all the departments within HMT

Assist with the month end review process and completion of Lead Schedules for each site proactively suggesting areas where further analysis is needed

Highlight, analyse, suggest mitigation and monitor all issues of financial performance, liaising with service providers where appropriate and working with them to promote continuous improvement

Contribute to the construction of budgets and forecasts

Clear understanding of Power BI overhead dashboards and drivers

Business partnering with Accounts payable and Payroll to streamline processes and analyse reporting

Ensuring allocations are up to date across CC8 and ensuring income rec, debtors and creditors are clean and accurate.

Deep dive data sets to ensure debtor, creditor and prepayment reporting conforms to other output sources

Proficient in using and reporting from Access Dimensions, Compucare 8 and Coolcare (training provided)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Analysing multiple sets of data from various accounting/financial systems to produce relevant analysis and summary reports

Work with the Finance and Commercial Business Partner, Care Home Managers and Finance Team to develop, implement and manage departmental Management Information, across all the departments within HMT

Assist with the month end review process and completion of Lead Schedules for each site proactively suggesting areas where further analysis is needed

Highlight, analyse, suggest mitigation and monitor all issues of financial performance, liaising with service providers where appropriate and working with them to promote continuous improvement

Contribute to the construction of budgets and forecasts

Clear understanding of Power BI overhead dashboards and drivers

Business partnering with Accounts payable and Payroll to streamline processes and analyse reporting

Ensuring allocations are up to date across CC8 and ensuring income rec, debtors and creditors are clean and accurate.

Deep dive data sets to ensure debtor, creditor and prepayment reporting conforms to other output sources

Proficient in using and reporting from Access Dimensions, Compucare 8 and Coolcare (training provided)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level or AAT part qualified
  • Excellent IT skills , advanced level
  • Studying towards AAT or Accounting Graduate

Desirable

  • Experience of management accounts production
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level or AAT part qualified
  • Excellent IT skills , advanced level
  • Studying towards AAT or Accounting Graduate

Desirable

  • Experience of management accounts production

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.

Employer details

Employer name

HMT Sancta Maria Hospital

Address

Sancta Maria Hospital

Lamberts Road

Swansea

West Glamorgan

SA1 8FD


Employer's website

https://www.hmtsanctamaria.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

HMT Sancta Maria Hospital

Address

Sancta Maria Hospital

Lamberts Road

Swansea

West Glamorgan

SA1 8FD


Employer's website

https://www.hmtsanctamaria.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

People Advisor

Jessica Brooks

jbrooks@hmt-uk.org

Details

Date posted

09 April 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,643 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0013-26-0013

Job locations

Sancta Maria Hospital

Lamberts Road

Swansea

West Glamorgan

SA1 8FD


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