Treasury Assistant in Birmingham

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a permanent Treasury Assistant for 30 hours per week within a busy finance department. This post is part of a small team to support the Senior Treasury Officer to ensure all Treasury and Financial Accounting functions are carried out and all accounting standards are adhered to along with all Policies and Procedures approved by the Trust. Depending on the needs of the business, the Treasury duties could be carried out in the Treasury Office at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, the Birmingham Women's Hospital or remotely from home.

A key rotational role will be to ensure the Cashiers Office at both the Women's and Children's Hospitals are fully manned and operational within the opening hours determined by the Chief Financial Officer. You should be bright, enthusiastic and working towards AAT qualification or CCAB qualification is desirable. You should have good communication skills and computer skills. You must be confident, professional, customer focused, resourceful, and be capable of prioritising your workload to meet strict deadlines dictated by a challenging environment.

Main duties of the job

• A key rotational role will be to ensure the Cashiers Offices are fully manned and operational within the opening hours determined by the Chief Financial Officer.
• There is a Cashiers Office located in both the Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital. Dependent on the needs of the business, cover needs to be given to both sites.
• The Cashier role involves Customer Service to patients, staff and liaising with Cash carriers.
• Work with the Trust's Internal Auditors when the Treasury Department is audited, sharing processes and procedures. This will require implementing any proposed recommendations within agreed timescales.
• Resolving frequent queries received from third parties such as HMRC, Courts, Payroll, patient's families, staff and visitors. This will often necessitate changing from one task to another in order to obtain the specific information required within a given deadline.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old. Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable). Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

• QUALIFICATIONS

• Essential: GCSE Math & English Grade C or above
• Desirable: AAT Level 2 or actively studying towards AAT or equivalent qualification

• Essential: Experience in finance office environment and cash handling
• Desirable: Experience of working in an NHS Finance environment with a Shared Service Provider

• Essential: Must be able to communicate clearly, concisely and courteously both verbally and in writing
• Essential: Ability to concentrate frequently and for long periods analysing reconciliations

• Essential: A practical working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word and experience using a computerized ledger

• Essential: Ability to manage workloads within time frames. Liaise with Senior Treasury Officer to ensure Cash Office is manned during opening times
• Essential: The ability to work under minimal supervision and direction. The ability to use initiative in fulfilling and completing tasks
• Essential: Manual dexterity to count cash and lifting bags of coins.
• Essential: Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Essential: Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Essential: Team working
• Essential: Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required

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. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.