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

15 minutes ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post-holder will be responsible for providing financial management support for the ICB's running costs budgets and related business processes.

The post holder will also be required to assist the corporate finance manager with detailed financial analysis and supporting budget holder requests.

The main duties and responsibilities of the role are:
Supporting the Corporate Finance Manager with monthly accounting processes including supporting monthly reporting to budget holders.

Undertaking transaction analysis as directed by the Corporate Finance Manager.

Undertake monthly reconciliation of the ledger to ensure that all transactions are coded correctly, to post ledger journals where required and also on behalf of the team.

Processing mandate payment schedules in line with contract values, processing non purchase invoices ensuring these are correctly validated and coded, and liaising with finance staff in SBS/CSU regarding any issues.

Administration of financial aspects of vacancy approval, starter and leaver forms.

Preparation of sales invoices and processing of credit notes.

Completion of reconciliations relating to pay and agency costs and other areas as required.

Providing financial information to support financial returns/requests to external stakeholders, e.g. financial submissions to NHS England, Freedom of Information Requests.

As a member of our system you will actively demonstrate system values in all that you do. You will be driven to address health inequalities and create an environment that is inclusive for all people.

In return NHS Birmingham and Solihull can offer you the opportunity to thrive and develop in a team that is supportive, ambitious and inclusive.

You will have plenty of opportunities to build your skills and experience, with a chance to work with colleagues across our five Provider Trusts, two Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England to truly effect change and add value.

We know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation and are committed to challenging discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity for all, being a fair and inclusive employer, and creating a place of work in which all of us feel we belong.

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 ICB's general ledger system.

Completion of month-end financial tasks and processes.

Preparation of monthly pay and non-pay budget reports.

Payroll reconciliations and financial management reporting.

The post-holder will be in the process of completing a professional accountancy qualification - Certificate Level/Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Member or equivalent experience to degree level.

The post-holder will be IT literate and possess advanced ability to use excel, word and PowerPoint; and experience of the ISFE financial ledger system including knowledge of ISFE reporting.

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 framew