Job summary
- Main area
- Financial Accounts
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-CP7247646
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HQ
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Financial Accounts Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The Assistant Financial Accountant will be responsible for supporting the Senior Financial Accountant to provide a high quality and comprehensive Financial Accounting service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will: -
- Assist in the timely and accurate completion of Control Account reconciliations.
- Ensure employee salary deductions are made in a timely and accurate manner.
- Process manual payments in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
- Act as relief cashier for the Trust’s inpatient sites when needed.
- Provide support as required for the ELFT Charity
They will contribute to the achievement of the overall objectives of the Finance Department and deputise for the Senior Financial Accountant where appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To process all manual salary payments, manual Accounts Payable payments, manual cheques and patient’s monies payments, ensuring that the necessary paperwork is obtained and payments are in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
- To complete monthly control account reconciliations as delegated to them by the Senior Financial Accountant.
- To liaise with appropriate third parties (including Payroll, HR and SBS) to clear outstanding reconciling items in a timely manner.
- To assist in the preparation of monthly bank reconciliations for the Trust’s bank accounts, ensuring reconciling items are cleared promptly and outstanding items are reviewed regularly and written back where necessary.
- To prepare regular summaries of the pensions received from DWP in the patient’s monies account and send to the appropriate cashier/welfare officer.
- To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in ensuring that any money held by the Trust on behalf of patients is managed correctly by ensuring that monthly reconciliations are completed.
- To act as the relief cashier for the Trust’s inpatient sites when needed.
- To monitor and process petty cash claims for sub-floats where there is no access to an on-site cashier.
- To provide regular analysis of petty cash expenditure.
- To assist in the administration of the Trust Purchase Card expenditure database and provide regular analysis reports.
- To assist in the recovery of all monies owed to the Trust by the staff loans, leases, and salary sacrifice schemes.
- To process expenses claims for non-substantive staff e.g. students & honorary staff.
- To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in the management of the Trust’s lease cars including the processing of invoices and recovery of debts owed by employees in relation to lease cars.
- To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in the monthly recharges of consolidated invoices such as stationery, taxis, hotels and travel.
- To assist with the Agreement of Balances exercise, particularly in relation to creditors.
To ensure that at all times there is a valid audit trail for any entries made to the financial ledger.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a financial environment
- Experience of working to tight deadlines
- Experience in managing and prioritising a busy workload
Desirable criteria
- Experience of computerised accounting systems
- Experience in the NHS
Education
Essential criteria
- 5 GCSEs including Maths and English or equivalent qualification
- Educated to NVQ Level 4 standard
Desirable criteria
- Studying towards Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Technician Level
Knowledge & skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of accounting procedures (reconciliation and balances)
- Highly numerate with good technical skills
- Competency in spreadsheet skills
- Ability to learn quickly and capable of working on their own initiative with minimum supervision
- To communicate effectively with all levels of staff both written and oral
- Ability to prepare clear and accurate information
- Good organisation skills
- Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve queries and discrepancies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the general ledger
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandie Davenport
- Job title
- Senior Financial Accountant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02076554230
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