About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Finance Team for an individual to provide comprehensive and professional accounting support within the Trust's Financial Services Department. The department is responsible for overseeing routine transactional processes and maintaining robust financial controls across the Trust's main exchequer accounts and Charitable Fund.
The successful post holder will support the effective management of financial activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and adherence to established financial procedures..
Main duties of the job
This will include the following activities under supervision:
Reconciliation of control accounts
Raising of sales ledger invoices in accordance with a regular billing schedule as well as on an ad-hoc basis.
Provide assistance for distributing invoices and getting them approved on the payables ledger promptly
Support to the Trust's Treasury management activities, including cashiering, patient affairs, and aspects of credit control
Support the department by obtaining backup for all relevant to areas of the department's operation and ensuring it is filed appropriately and promptly
Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by analysing and entering charges from consolidated invoices across multiple budget centres
Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by entering accrual and prepayment adjustments as required
Supporting the annual accounts and monthly reporting process
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Computer literate with experience of using Microsoft Office GCSEs at Grade C or above in both English language and Mathematics (or equivalent qualification) Studying for a relevant accounting qualification (for example AAT/ACCA/CIMA)
Desirable
Studying for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)
Experience Essential
Experience of working in a busy finance department Experience of resolving invoice issues with debtors and suppliers/creditors Familiar with using Excel functions e.g. pivot tables
Desirable
Experience using oracle business intelligence Experience using oracle financials Experience of processing high volume transactions
Additional Criteria Essential
Previous knowledge of financial and accounting procedures Basic accounting skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)