Financial Management Assistant - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Description
What we're looking for:
The ability to work to tight deadlines and manage a diverse workload is essential.
A practical, proactive and flexible approach is key to successful performance within the role, as is the ability to work with spreadsheets and finance systems.
Why you should work with us:
Join our highly motivated, enthusiastic, and inclusive team and have the privilege of working for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, the largest single site cancer centre in Europe.
We hold the patients at the heart of everything we do, striving to transform cancer treatments and improve outcomes for our patients, at the same time offering a range of training both internally and externally, along with mentoring programmes and study support.
We recognise how important modern working practices are to enable our employees to maximise their performance and productivity whilst maintaining an excellent work life balance and so have adopted a hybrid office/home working approach where employees can work predominantly from home or flex their time between both.
Supporting a Divisional Finance Manager, Corporate Finance Manager and Assistant Divisional Finance Manager, you will assist the team in providing a comprehensive financial support service to a range of non-clinical divisions.
You will support in the provision of high quality, accurate and timely financial management information and advice including month end reporting, budget queries and assisting in costing skill mix changes, service changes and contract award papers.
We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.
Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Support the Head of Financial Management (HoFM), Divisional Finance Manager (DFM) and Assistant Divisional Finance Manager (ADFM) in providing an effective monitoring and reporting service to the trust in accordance with the agreed timetables, procedures and standards prescribed within the trust.
To investigate material variances from budgets, using budget variance analysis (e.g. compilation of pay spreadsheets, completion of income reconciliations based on activity undertaken) under the direction of the DFM / ADFM and to report findings or conclusions and provide a range of options for resolution to the relevant managers within agreed timescales. This will facilitate forecasting the levels of expenditure/activity/income within those directorates whilst highlighting pressures as soon as they arise.
To keep records of budget queries and any corresponding responses in a format determined by the DFM / ADFM to enable a regular review to be made of the service provided to the managers.
Contributing to meetings with budget holders on behalf of the DFM / ADFM and ensuring that all discussions and decisions are documented.
Develop a greater understanding of the division in order to present the information required in a format which is easily understood by budget holders.
To assist in the day-to-day management of the general ledger, this includes input of journals, maintenance of the purchase ledger supplies accounts, creation of financial codes within the trust structure, maintenance of budget holder's names within the trust structure and clearance of error suspense in accordance with accounting procedure.
Ensure on a monthly basis that appropriate accruals and pre-payment are accurately included in the Trust current and forecast financial position.
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