Finance Assistant

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Trust is seeking to strengthen its financial services team, through the appointment of a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to the role of Finance Assistant within the Financial Services section of the Finance Directorate.
The Finance Directorate actively promotes training and development within the team, across the Trust and externally. We have developed a comprehensive finance education strategy and hold Towards Excellence Level 3 accreditation. We are an active member of the FSD Network, Future Focused Finance, and the Towards Excellence scheme.
The post holder will have a strong attention to detail and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
The role will be to support across the whole Financial Services Team in the provision of a high quality, professional financial accounting services.
See Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Accounts Payable
1. Register and match supplier invoices and credit notes through the financial ledger system. Following the Trust guidelines including accounting for discounts or commission and ensuring that the correct treatment of value added tax (VAT) has been applied in accordance with the Trust Standing Financial Instructions and the internal processes.
2. Resolve discrepancies on supplier invoices. escalating through line management, as needed.
3. Reconcile supplier statements regularly resolving problems and avoiding accounts being placed on stop or from receiving credit balances.
Accounts Receivable
4. Assist in credit control activities, including raising of invoices and credit notes, ensuring queries are dealt with in a timely manner.
5. Be a point of contact for customers and staff to answer any invoice queries that may arise.
Cash Management
6. Assist in cash management duties associated with all bank accounts. Ensure any issues or discrepancies are investigated and reported to the Assistant Financial Services Manager.
7. Assist in the reconciliation of control accounts, in line with the Trust’s timetable. Investigate and resolve any discrepancies, escalating any differences to the Assistant Financial Services Manager.
8. Assist in the preparation of the payment request schedule for external payments and email the appropriate remittances. Complete correction journals for deduction codes where necessary.
9. Assist with the input of all manual payments using the Government bank system ensuring the Trust procedures are followed.
Staff Travel
10. Support the staff travel coordinator with hotel, rail and flight bookings for the Trust.
Other Duties
11. Assist with administering the various generic finance inboxes, referring queries to relevant team members and responding to queries where possible.
12. Document procedure notes for all tasks and ensure these are reviewed on an annual basis.
Provide administrative support to the financial services team including following the month end procedures and timetables, along with covering duties for other members of the team during periods of absence