Finance Analyst
Job Description
Job summary
We have an opportunity for a full-time Finance Analyst to join our dynamic and busy Business Support Team.
This role will be supporting a Deputy Business Support Accountant working with Corporate Departments to help ensure robust and accurate financial management and reporting are completed at all times.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a progressive person who will embrace our strategies and strive for excellence and improvements wherever possible.We are keen to develop our workforce and this couldlead to future opportunitiesinternally for ambitious and capable candidates
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job responsibilities
The post holder will support and input into the production of monthly and annual management accounts, including;
- Correctly coding a large volume of supplier invoices on a daily basis
- Maintaining Budget Managers document showing correct approvers for each cost centre
- Investigating variances and resolving discrepancies, liaising with internal and external parties as necessary.
- Discussion with staff regarding confidential and sensitive financial issues and offering financial advice where possible.
- Participating with interfaces and journals to input and manipulate financial data onto Finance Systems.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant finance experience in a large organisation.
- Experience of preparing and maintaining accounting records
- Use of relevant software packages
- Preparation of management accounts
Desirable
- Previous NHS Accounting Experience
- Knowledge of E Financials
- Knowledge of Oracle Financials
- Knowledge of Electronic Staff Record
Qualifications
Essential
- AAT full membership (i.e. exams plus portfolio of minimum one year's work experience
- CCAB/CIMA Certificate level or Honours degree
Desirable
- Commitment towards completing CCAB/CIMA qualification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Ability to explain financial issues with clarity
Desirable
- Influencing, negotiating and cross-functional working skills
- Willingness to travel between sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Greenwood Offices
Brook Avenue
Ascot
SL5 8AA
