Job overview

Are you looking for a role in NHS Finance, working as part of a fast paced, compassionate, and innovative team? An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an Accountancy Assistant within our Trust. We are looking for a dedicated and highly motivated individual to join our finance team in providing a comprehensive Financial Management service.

This role is part of a wider Financial Management team that provides advice and support to the Business Units within the Trust. Working closely with the wider team this role will provide you with an opportunity to work in a central financial management team supporting Business Unit and Trust reporting.

The post holder will support the Strategic Finance Teams, providing timely and accurate information and advice to facilitate the effective monitoring of Trust, Divisions, and Departmental financial positions. This will include production of accurate financial information including the processing of accrual, prepayment and adjustment journals, preparation of the monthly financial and performance reports, including budget monitoring and variance analysis, commenting on influencing factors.

Candidates should have excellent communication skills and strong initiative to solve problems and work as a supportive and efficient team member, with a good attention to detail.

This is a hybrid role, with at least two days per week based at our office in Bensham. Please confirm in your application that you can meet this requirement.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Accountancy Assistant include, but are not limited to:

• To support the Management Accountants in the provision of a high-quality financial management service
• To support the production of accurate financial information including the processing of accrual, prepayment and adjustment journals aligned to standard processes.
• To support the processing of all interfaces between financial systems and the general ledger
• To work with the Senior Finance Team to ensure that annual income and expenditure budgets are prepared in a timely manner ensuring that they meet the Trust's financial and clinical objectives.
• Support the Expenditure & Systems Accountant in the maintenance of the coding structure held within all financial systems
• Support the Expenditure & Systems Accountant in the maintenance of delegated expenditure limits and coding structure within the Trust purchase ordering system
• Support the Expenditure & Systems Accountant in the development and maintenance of accurate and orderly documentation in relation to Cost Reduction Programme (CRP) schemes.
• Responsible for the investigation of, and response to, financial enquiries from both internal and external stakeholders.
• To ensure that financial controls are maintained within SFI’s and governance guidelines
• Assistance in the production of Budget Management Training
• Contribute to the general development of the Management Accounting and Finance function
• To undertake any other duties as appropriate to the role.

Working for our organisation

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.