Finance Assistant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key Relationships:

The post holder will be required to liaise with a variety of individuals and organisations, these include: Finance team colleagues Senior managers.

ICB staff across a number of directorates. Staff from other NHS organisations, e.g., NHS England and NHS providers Staff from non-NHS organisations e.g., local authorities, third sector providers Staff from the Commissioning Support Unit (including finance & business intelligence)

Communications and relationship skills The post-holder will be required to liaise with a variety of individuals and organisations, including:
senior managers and directors; internal and external auditors; finance staff from other NHS organisations e.g. NHS England, NHS Providers.

The post-holder will be able to communicate financial information and respond to complex and sensitive financial queries, providing advice as required.

Knowledge, training and experience The post-holder will have experience and expertise in a range of accounting areas including: Budget amendments, income and expenditure accruals and adjustments to the ICBs general ledger system.

Completion of month-end financial tasks and processes. Preparation of monthly pay and non-pay budget reports.

Analytical and judgement skills The post-holder will be required and interrogate detailed data sets from a wide variety of sources and produce information meaningful to the end user.

As well as communicate that information clearly and succinctly using the most appropriate means:
verbally, written narrative, graphically or otherwise. The post-holder will respond and action queries received, or escalate to senior management to respond.

Planning and organisational skills The post-holder will need to plan work-loads to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial timetables are met.

This will include monthly processes for completion of month-end ledger closedown, financial reporting to budget holders and annual accounts closedown.

Responsibility for policy/service development The post-holder will work closely with the ICB Finance team to implement processes and procedures that deliver savings and efficiencies to existing / historic working practices.

The post-holder will help ensure the ICB adheres to its governance framework, complies with relevant statutory regulation and implements NHS.

Finance and Resources The post-holder will play a key role in the formulation and updating of annual departmental budgets and the delivery of budgetary control.

The post-holder will also ensure that all contractual payments relating to corporate services are made correctly and on time.

The post-holder will support and maintain financial input to the ICBs Electronic Staff Records database, to allow for robust workforce analysis.

The post-holder will have responsibility for delivering financial training and support to non-finance managers, as required. The post-holder will also have a responsibility to respond and undertake tasks set by audit as requested.

This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder is required to be flexible in developing their role in agreement with the line manager.