Trainee Management Accountant - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Maintain the ledger by preparing and entering journals as directed by the Finance Business Partners.

Ensuring all system procedures are adhered to and that information held on the finance system is accurate and the month end reporting deadline is met.

Investigate variances from approved income and expenditure budgets as directed by the Finance Business Partners.

Administer the finance led tasks in the Trusts vacancy control process, keeping a log of all requests, validating the source of funding for the role/variation and proactively managing each request through the process.

Maintain the approved funded establishment for the services by updating spreadsheets and performing recalculations as and when required by the Finance Business Partners, highlighting variances against budgets.

Meet with budget managers on a monthly basis to discuss their financial position and to provide high quality budget reports and analytical reviews to assist them in discharging their duties.

Maintain a record of adjustments to Care Group budgets for budget managers information and to help ensure that where any new funding has been allocated part-year that this is adjusted to allocate the full-year budget in the following financial year.

Assist with any work required as part of in-year non recurrent bids or business cases as directed by the Finance Business Partners and the Head of Financial Management.

Provide ad-hoc costings to managers as required.

This requires a knowledge of the payroll rates and allowances for a range of staff in addition to a knowledge of the applicable rates of superannuation and employers national insurance contributions which need to be kept up to date.

Raise invoices for Trust to Trust Services and Service Level Agreement Income, responding to queries arising where appropriate.

Review invoices received for services provided to the Trust, ensuring they are accurate, all inaccurate invoices should be barred and held and a satisfactory explanation and resolution sought.

Collate activity information for cost centres as directed by the Finance Business Partners for use by the Principal Income and Cost Accountant in the production of Reference Costs information and PLICS.

Assist the Finance Business Partners in compiling and collating data needed for statutory returns and requests for information as required, including Freedom of Information Requests.

Support the Head of Financial Management in the production of the monthly finance report to Trust Board and TEG by providing appendices in tables and graphical formats.

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