Finance Officer

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join the Finance Department on a full time basis.

You will join a key section of the Finance Team, which is responsible for the provision of financial support across the Care Groups.Your focus will be on supporting the Clinical Support Services Group's Finance Team in producing high quality financial information and providing supporting analysis and advice to the Care Group to ensure sound financial management within the University Health Board.

The Finance Department has a strong Staff Development Programme, which provides opportunities to develop your career within the Health Board.

The working week will follow a hybrid-working model split between home and office working; any face-to-face meetings could be at sites across the Health Board footprint.

You will have excellent organisational and communication skills plus the ability to deal with people at all levels in a friendly and helpful manner.

Main duties of the job

Assisting in the provision of accurate and timely financial management information to the Health Board and its budget holders

Responsible for processing month end journals to ensure a materially robust financial position is reported - this will include expenditure, income and budget journals

Assist in the timely and accurate production of financial reporting and the monitoring of performance against budget

Maintaining budgeted establishments and support the Divisional Support Accountants by providing ad-hoc costings and financial information

Dealing with ad-hoc queries from the service teams and meeting with budget holders as and when required.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.