Senior Accountancy Assistant

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Accountancy Assistant to join our Financial Management team. This post is a fixed term post for 12 months covering maternity leave.
The role includes manipulating and analysing data within a computerised accounting system to produce financial management budget reports which aid the delivery of a high quality financial management accounting service. Also to analyse financial queries including the preparation of forecasts of income & expenditure.
The post will be based at Northumbria House, Cobalt Business Park.
Skilled in the use of spreadsheets, databases and word processing through studying towards ECDL accreditation or equivalent experience.
Good communication skills are essential both orally and in writing, with such experience covering a broad range of management and non-finance staff.
Good analytical skills and numeracy are essential. Examples include: -
Analysis of complex financial queries such as forecasting the year end pay expenditure position for a Pathology department based on proposed staffing changes,
Analysing multi-stranded reasons for expenditure varying from budget, and
Resolving queries concerning financial reports from budget holders including identification of errors and rectifying problems with data from feeder systems such as payroll, requiring the comparison of a range of options in deciding on the best solution.
Planning and organisation of ongoing complex tasks is required around strict weekly, monthly and annual financial deadlines to meet financial reporting requirements. This involves the allocation and re-allocation of tasks to the Accountancy Assistant as dictated by short-notice requests from others. For example, initiating and co-ordinating the production of a Directorate-wide year end expenditure position, requiring the sourcing and collation of complicated information from several departments and from other finance staff.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To support the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager in providing high quality financial accounting across Financial Services.
To undertake specific projects as defined by the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager.
To input data to and manipulate data within the computerised accounting system. To produce monthly financial reports for managers within strict financial timescales, together with supporting information.
To analyse and investigate complex queries and provide advice and training to Department staff as required by the Head of Financial Services / Financial Accounts Manager.
Analysis of debtor and creditor accounts.
To support to the Trust’s Treasury Management function, providing necessary support for the cashiers when required.
Analysis of monthly VAT input/output and completion of VAT return for payment/reclaim of any monies due.
Assist in the implementation of new or revised operating systems to contribute to the improvement of Financial Services Information Systems. ie. Oracle: MTD, Reconciliations.
To assist the Finance Manager in the implementation of any recommendations agreed following audits

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