Graduate Finance Trainee

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Knowledge of accounting principles
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The principle duty of the role will be to assist the Finance & Business Manager (Financial Management) in the provision of an expert management accounting service. During this role the trainee will acquire a broad range of practical management accounting experience.

Regular tasks and duties would include:

• Ensuring monthly accruals and prepayments are posted and accurate supporting documentation is maintained for these journals.
• Ensuring the budget statements are produced in line with the department’s monthly timetable.
• Access data from a variety of sources in order to produce variance analysis reports for budget holders and senior managers.
• Supporting the Assistant Director of Finance (Financial Management) in the production of the Finance Report to the Board
• Responding to queries from Budget Holders
• Ensuring that budgets are set in accordance with agreed business plans
• Assisting in the preparation of business plans, business cases and service change proposals, incorporating trend and risk analysis providing support to the decision making process across complex ranges of options.
• Assisting in the production of a monthly forecast of income and expenditure.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.