Job vacancy: Senior Finance Officer, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Hull

Job summary

Main area

Finance

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 4

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Working remotely and at HQ)

Job ref

338-7329741-25

Employer: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Hull
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/07/2025 23:59
Interview date: 30/07/2025

Senior Finance Officer

NHS AfC: Band 4

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information in regard to this vacancy, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

Knowledge of financial and accountancy principles and relevant legislation particularly in the public sector as it affects own finance area
Analyses, investigates and resolves financial queries and discrepancies.
Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail
Experience in the development and use of financial spreadsheets/systems
Experience of working in a public sector finance department
Use accounting knowledge and experience to prepare data for accounting returns to the Department of Health, NHS Improvement and Board reports
An understanding of the basic policies and procedures applicable to own role is required and have a broad working knowledge of policies and standards applicable to the department

Desirable criteria

Detailed knowledge of Standing Financial Instructions and Standard Operation Procedures
Experience of SBS and Oracle financial systems
Experience in using AI to analyse financial data

Skills and Competancies

Essential criteria

Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships
Ability to communicate and present clearly financial data to non-finance staff in a simplified form and how the data links to service delivery.
Calm confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations.
Confident user of computers in the workplace with understanding of how to create and develop spreadsheets to analyse data

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

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