Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Finance Assistant Job at Reading, England Full Time

The Finance Assistant is a varied role at the heart of the Finance Directorate here at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. It is a varied position working with a broad spectrum of colleagues in both Financial Management and Financial Accounting.

Please be aware of the change to legislation from the 1st April 2022 which will require providers of CQC-regulated activities only employ individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to roles where they have direct, face to face contact with patients and/or service users. By applying for a role at RBFT, you accept that should your application be successful, this may be a mandatory requirement of your role if it is deemed a ‘direct-facing’ role. Should you require further help or support with this, please contact our Recruitment Team.

The principal responsibilities of the role include:
Financial Management – including undertaking routine month end adjustments under the guidance of the senior accountant and assisting with budgeting and forecasting for a small corporate directorate

Financial Services – including the raising of invoices for Non Commissioned Activity, assisting with monthly reconciliations and the preparation of cheque requests

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is Reading’s biggest employer.

Financial Management

• To manage weekly and monthly processing and reconciliation of NHSP invoices including the month end process
• To have responsibility of providing management accounts support to a small corporate department, under the direct guidance of the Senior Management Accountant
• To assist in preparation of the monthly and annual management accounts as and when required
• To assist in the annual budgeting process and in the quarterly forecasting process
• To respond to simple queries from budget holders under the guidance of the Senior Management Accountant
• To process requisitions raised within Finance department and dealing with related queries

Financial Services and Treasury

• To be responsible for NCAs credit control, including the raising of invoices
• To assist in the reconciliation of various control and suspense accounts on a monthly basis, with specific focus on Assets verification and disposal
• To assist in the addition and reconciliation of quarterly and annual stock takes that appears on the Trusts Statement of Financial Position
• To assist in the preparation of cheque requests for the RBFT and the Charity accounts