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Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ashford and St Peters Hospital is currently expanding their Financial Management team. We are looking for somebody with the desire to support the Financial Management function who would like to progress their career in a varied and challenging role, which may be suitable for a Finance graduate. You will be joining us at an exciting time as we continue to develop the team and there will be opportunities to progress your career as we are an ACCA accredited employer and a study package is available. We are also committed to process improvement within the team so you would enjoy the challenge of striving to constantly improve.
Role Overview
Reporting to a Divisional Finance Manager, the post holder will work as part of the Financial Management team. The role primarily focuses on the provision of analytical services to the Financial Management team to identify key financial issues and enable accurate month-end accruals to be made. The role will also assist with budgetary management, budget setting and reporting and will perform a variety of finance-related tasks to strict month and year-end deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of data and information for the monthly reporting process
- Maintenance of the budgets for specific areas to be covered by this post
- Confirmation of budget when recruitment occurs
- Clear error suspense items that are rejected by the finance system
- Variance analyses to ascertain reasons for over and underspends
- Budget and actuals uploads onto the Financial General Ledger
- Being a part of the annual Business Planning and Budget-setting process
- Maintain Pay budgets, and update as required
- Any other financial work as required
- Work with budget-holders, as well as colleagues within Finance
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Advisory/Contact
- Liaise with other members of the Finance team
- Liaise with some budget-holders, across Corporate and Clinical areas
- Liaise with some Procurement staff regarding orders, costs and authorisations
- Liaise with Human Resources staff regarding recruitment and Pay budget questions
- Liaise with IT and other Corporate areas
- Liaise with Trust Auditors
General
- Support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work
- To have responsibility for Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and comply at all times with the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations
- Ensure that Mandatory Training is completed as required
- Maintain a smart appearance, and wear an ID Badge
- To work across site occasionally if required
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
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We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- On-site Nurseries
- On-site staff cafes
- On-site parking
- Support in career development
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree, or equivalent experience
- AAT Certificate, or other accounting qualification
- Good Excel spreadsheet skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience working in a Finance environment
- Experience of Financial systems/processes
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience within the NHS
- Prior experience with Oracle Financials software
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to explain complex data and information issues, offer advice to assist in sound decision making and recommend actions
- Knowledge of accounting principles and financial systems
- Flexible approach working within a large organisation
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