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

4 days ago

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Description

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.

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.

Please note interviews for this role will be held between Wednesday 18thand Friday 20thJanuary 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.

Details of additional duties are provided in the Job Description document.

St Helens and 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 the CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and 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

Whiston Hospital

This is a teaching hospital, which provides a comprehensive range of Acute Medical and Surgical services.

The Emergency Department, Maternity Services, Paediatrics, Medicine for Older People, the Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Units are based on this site.

There is a Critical Care Unit with ICU, HDU, CCU, and an onsite Cardiac Catheter Laboratory.

The stroke consultants deliver 24/7 thrombolysis to eligible patients presenting with acute stroke, and the 30 bedded stroke ward accommodates both acute stroke patients and those with rehabilitation needs.

St Helens Hospital

The redeveloped hospital was opened in 2008 as an Ambulatory Care Centre with Intermediate Care and Day Surgery.

The Rheumatology, Dermatology and Diabetes services are based on this site, with in-reach of their staff into the acute wards at Whiston Hospital.

Responsibilities:

To establish and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues internal and external to the Finance department to ensure effective working.

To ensure the provision of high quality financial information and accurate advice to budget holders and other non-finance managers. To develop good working relationships internally and externally to the Finance department.

To assist Financial Management colleagues in ensuring income and expenditure is monitored and is recorded accurately. To monitor variances from planned income and expenditure and to discuss queries with budget holders and Finance colleagues where necessary, resolving th