Role Description

A Management Accounts Assistant will maintain the Trust’s financial ledgers and assist in providing valued, accurate support and advice to senior finance colleagues.

The post-holder will process accounting information in accordance with the agreed monthly accounting timetable thereby ensuring that department reporting requirements are consistently achieved.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of annual startpoint budget proposals for Directorate in accordance with the Trust’s budgeting policies.
• Generate and circulate standard reports to enable the effective monitoring of actual performance of budget centres against budget.
• Provide robust analysis of variances against budget, including the impact of clinical activity where appropriate, and to inform effective management of budgets within the group.
• Calculate and input budget amendments, income and expenditure accruals and adjustments to the Trust’s general ledger system thereby maintaining the integrity of financial reporting.
• Maintain records and controls of approved budgets to provide a clear audit trail of changes both non-recurring and recurring.
• Prepare cost estimates in an appropriate form and in a timely manner for use by Managers and other budget holders, which will inform decisions about the efficient use of resources, including the workforce.
• Discuss a range of financial and non-financial issues with Managers, Directorate staff, external organisations and non-financially minded personnel, which may require the explanation of semi-complicated and/or contentious points.
• Collect data from a variety of sources to investigate, analyse and resolve a range of semi-complex financial and non-financial queries.
• Adapt information systems to meet the specifications of others.