Financial Management Assistant - Huyton, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Huyton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

From 1st April 2023, Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust will be joining together with St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as part of a TUPE process to form a new collaborative NHS Trust.

We are currently awaiting confirmation of the name of the new Trust.

Any applicants who secure an offer of employment and/ or are due to commence their new role from 1st April 2023 onwards are advised that their conditional offer and contract of employment will be issued as per our normal recruitment process but will be under the new name of the organisation.

All the details of the offers of employment and contracts of employment will remain as advertised and these changes will not affect your employment with us.

An opportunity has arisen for the role of Financial Management Assistant, acting as a key member of the Financial Management team.

The postholder will provide accurate and timely financial information and reporting to colleagues internal and external to Finance, including providing support to budget holders across the organisation.

Interview date:
w/c 17th April 2023

The Financial Management Assistant's main duties will be to:

Ensure the provision of high quality financial information and accurate advice to budget holders and other non-finance managers.
Develop good working relationships internally and externally to the Finance department.
Assist Financial Management colleagues in ensuring income and expenditure is monitored and is recorded accurately, including monitoring variances from planned income and expenditure and discussing queries with budget holders and Finance colleagues.
Use Excel and other software to provide financial reports and conduct financial analysis, using formulae and other functionality as required.
Complete regular tasks accurately and in line with the monthly timetable, including where relevant internal recharges between departments, requests for ad hoc invoices to be raised and updates to the ledger to reflect an accurate financial position.
Ensure most effective use of the Trust's financial resources, including assisting with the annual budget setting/financial planning process by updating and reviewing information for the new financial year, including staffing information. To liaise with budget holders as part of this process, to ensure accurate information is used.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year
HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rates Outstanding by CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas.

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate and inclusive
Providing a safe environment for staff

Benefits of working for us

We provide many benefits for staff. Please see attached Staff Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information. Accessible version available upon request.

Please see attached documents for the full job description and person specification.

The postholder will ensure key processes within their areas of responsibility are delivered effectively and efficiently and will support the provision of regular financial reporting.

They will also support the Financial Management team in delivering costings, forecasts and the annual budget setting and year end reporting processes.

We are keen to support the health and wellbeing of our staff, both within the Finance and Information Directorate and through the programme of wellbeing events and offers in place across the organisation.

Our staff benefit from an annual leave allowance of 27-33 days (dependant on length of service) and we offer a generous study support policy providing both study leave and funding support for staff pursuing professional qualifications.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the disability confident scheme. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruiting mana