About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Technical Accounts team within the Financial Services Department. Would you welcome a challenge and a desirable opportunity to build a career within NHS Finance?
Working as part of a team the post holder will contribute to the efficient operation of the Technical Accounts team, covering treasury and balance sheet control.
Main duties of the job
Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust's monthly financial information and annual statutory accounts.
Maintaining the Trusts supplier database, updating and recording supplier information, being fraud aware and carrying out security checks on supplier information.
Ensure Trust income is recorded and receipted accurately and within monthly financial reporting schedules.
Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense codes.
Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions.
Support band 4 with the Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) process, maintaining database, interrogation of patient administration system and submitting forms to compensation recovery unit.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description Job responsibilities
Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust's monthly financial information and annual statutory accounts Maintaining the Trusts supplier database, updating and recording supplier information, being fraud aware and carrying out security checks on supplier information. Ensure Trust income is recorded and receipted accurately and within monthly financial reporting schedules. Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense codes. Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions. Support band 4 with the Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) process, maintaining database, interrogation of patient administration system and submitting forms to compensation recovery unit. Continually seek to identify areas for improvement within Financial Services and propose procedures to facilitate this while understanding the impact of the sections work on other areas of the Finance department. Analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries, identifying solutions from a range of options. Responsible for planning and organising own workloads to meet departmental timetables and deadlines, working between a number of tasks at any one time, prioritising workload as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
AAT or equivalent (Intermediate Level)
Experience Essential
Previous Finance Experience including knowledge of vat, petty cash, reconciling control Possess a high degree of numeracy and accuracy and the ability to work with numbers Ability to work with Microsoft Office particularly Excel, Access and Word.
Knowledge Essential
Numerate Ability to organize their own work and use initiative to ensure that all tasks are completed Good communication in order to work effectively, confidently liaising with staff within the department, Trust and other Trusts. Demonstrates high level of commitment to personal and professional development
Skills Essential
Adaptable and flexible Good communicator
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.
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Employer details Employer name Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Aintree University Hospital
Aintree House, Longmoor Lane
Liverpool
L9 7AL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)