Job description

Job responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust's monthly financial information and annual statutory accounts
• Maintaining the Trusts supplier database, updating and recording supplier information, being fraud aware and carrying out security checks on supplier information.
• Ensure Trust income is recorded and receipted accurately and within monthly financial reporting schedules.
• Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense codes.
• Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions.
• Support band 4 with the Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) process, maintaining database, interrogation of patient administration system and submitting forms to compensation recovery unit.
• Continually seek to identify areas for improvement within Financial Services and propose procedures to facilitate this while understanding the impact of the sections work on other areas of the Finance department.
• Analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries, identifying solutions from a range of options.
• Responsible for planning and organising own workloads to meet departmental timetables and deadlines, working between a number of tasks at any one time, prioritising workload as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• AAT or equivalent (Intermediate Level)

Experience

Essential

• Previous Finance Experience including knowledge of vat, petty cash, reconciling control
• Possess a high degree of numeracy and accuracy and the ability to work with numbers
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office particularly Excel, Access and Word.

Knowledge

Essential

• Numerate
• Ability to organize their own work and use initiative to ensure that all tasks are completed
• Good communication in order to work effectively, confidently liaising with staff within the department, Trust and other Trusts.
• Demonstrates high level of commitment to personal and professional development

Skills

Essential

• Adaptable and flexible
• Good communicator

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aintree University Hospital

Aintree House, Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7AL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)