Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Finance Officer Job at Leeds, England Full Time

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the Trust’s successful Finance team in the role of Trainee Accountant. The main purpose of the role is to provide support to the Management Accounts team and help produce the monthly budget monitoring reports. The role also involves contributing to the annual budget setting and reference cost processes, raising invoices and assistance with debt management.

We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic person, ideally with experience of working in a Finance Department. The successful candidate will have a high level of competence with Microsoft Excel and Word and preferably have experience of using Oracle accounting software.

Applicants must be confident, professional, customer focused, resourceful, and be capable of prioritising their workload to meet strict deadlines dictated by a challenging environment

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.

We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.

As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

JOB PURPOSE– To provide financial and administrative support to the management accounts department.

• To support the finance team in retrieving information from the finance system to support decision making
• To support the collation, distribution and return of regular and periodic finance reports to budget managers
• To provide any other support as needed by the finance team