At a Glance
- Tasks: Assist in providing professional financial services and support to various departments.
- Company: Join the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, dedicated to improving health and well-being.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience in finance with opportunities for career development.
- Other info: Dynamic role with potential for growth in a vibrant NHS setting.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare finance while developing your skills in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel; finance knowledge is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
We are seeking a Finance Officer within our Financial Management/reporting Team. The job involves assisting the Management Accountants and Management Accounts Assistants in the provision of a complete, professional financial service to a range of Sites/Departments, providing timely and accurate financial support and advice through the provision of robust monitoring information.
The postholder will support the Deputy Finance Business Partner/ Finance Manager in delivering a customer focused service to budget holders of the highest possible standard and maintaining adherence to the Trust monthly reporting timetable, preparing monthly financial performance reports and forecasts, analysing trends and variances.
The post holder will assist the Deputy Finance Business Partner/ Finance Manager in ensuring the Sites/Departments can manage their financial position and the Trust meets its financial targets. This will involve a range of regular analysis work, supplemented by ad hoc tasks as required.
- Working with Site/Department Management to agree their budget for each year, particularly with regards to the validation of staff in post and the costing of staff.
- Assisting in the production of the Site/Department monthly financial position within monthly timetables, particularly with intelligence gathering and producing analysis as required.
- Supporting the production of robust and detailed year end forecasts in accordance with Trust standards and timetables.
- Preparing, calculating, planning and monitoring complex information (using Excel spreadsheets and other software as appropriate), ensuring the accurate input of data and coding of transactions.
- Ensuring that all relevant income and expenditure is accurately reported in the financial statements of the Trust in accordance with monthly reporting timetables.
- Supporting the service with changes and recruitment of staffing, working with the service, Management Accountants and Deputy Partners to ensure these are actioned, challenged and appropriately approved in a timely manner.
- Supporting the service and the Financial Services team with resolution of coding of invoices where appropriate.
- Performing a programme of analysis work as appropriate to each Service and to assist in ensuring that the programme remains up to date, developing user-friendly reports with software tools such as Power BI dashboards, pivot tables, graphs and tables.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received. Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires.
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