Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

To support the Deputy Head of Financial Control by providing cover for all business-critical processes within the financial accounts department. To provide an efficient, effective and professional financial cash and working capital management service to the Trust and its stakeholders, in compliance with accounting standards and good practice guidelines. To support both the Trust and the charitable funds treasury function, by preparing and entering suppliers and payroll related BACS/CHAPS/cheque payments, ensuring all controls are adhered to. To have primary responsibility for the correct accounting for Trust’s and the Charitable Funds bank transactions, including petty cash, patient monies and credit cards.

To support the account payable and receivable function, which is undertaken by the Trust’s shared service provider, ensuring complex accounts payable queries referred to the financial accounts team are promptly resolved.

Location: South West London / Hybrid 3 office/2 home

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Expected to last 3 months with possible extension

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: Up to£21 per hour Umbrella or £18 per hour PAYE inclusive of holidaypay

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm

Sector: Healthcare

Based: Office / Hospital

• Experience within a complex organisation, preferably in a financial Accounts section within the NHS.
• Ability to maintain written and verbal communication about difficult matters or situations.
• Understanding VAT regulations.
• Good knowledge and skills of Integra or equivalent system.
• Ability to modify structure and maintain excel spread sheets and report on a limited range of data.
• Keyboard skills and accurate data entry processing
• Frequent requirement for prolonged concentration.
• Multi-tasking skills essential as is the ability to prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines.
• Able to work under pressure, checking and reconciling information, making calculations and answering queries from staff / customers.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work on own initiative.
• Contribute to testing and reviewing new models on the General Ledger system.

General

• Assist in the preparation of the annual accounts and audit. Contribute to management of the year end process, agreeing the timetable with internal and external stakeholders and ensuring that all deadlines are met.
• Prepare robust working files to support the annual accounts and the audit process to audit standard.
• Produce summary and detailed reports to support other reporting requirements, by third party organisations, the Deputy Head and Head of Financial Control, and other senior Finance managers.
• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and other sub ledgers by undertaking reconciliation of control accounts and data from which information is extracted and processed into the general ledger.
• Work collaboratively with other finance team members to ensure that both own and the team’s objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively.

Treasury Management

• Maintenance of the Trust’s and charitable funds cash books and ensure daily reconciliation to bank statements.
• Constant review of cash management and liquidity policies and procedures ensuring that they remain fit for purpose and reflect current best practice.
• Ensure the daily update of both Trust’s and charitable funds cashbook in support of the preparation and distribution of the Trusts daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cash forecast, and being responsible for the accuracy and completeness of these cash forecasts.
• Maintenance of the Trust’s and charitable funds petty cash floats, ensuring all floats and transactions are managed in accordance with the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and policies.
• Maintenance of the Trust’s patient monies balances, ensuring that all transactions are managed in accordance with the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and policies. Ensure balances are reconciled to bank statements on a monthly basis, and that issues are cascaded upwards on a timely basis.
• Relationship management with the Trust’s bank account managers, ensuring that the Trust’s banking arrangements are fit for purpose and reflect best current practice, and ensure the maintenance all bank mandates and users for all function to ensure continuity of business processes when authorisers or administrators leave the Trust.