Senior Financial Accountant

Job summary

AAT qualified or part qualified CCAB, the post holder will be responsible for maintaining the capital accounting records, control accounts, technical accounting expertise, monthly journals and other financial tasks including assisting the Senior Technical Accountant with month and year end. They will also play a key role in modelling the behaviours outlined in the Trust values.

Main duties of the job

1. Maintain on a monthly basis the capital additions spreadsheet.
2. Maintain the summary cost sheet for large capital projects.
3. Prepare quarterly capital additions figures to update asset register.
4. Ensure VAT is recovered where appropriate on capital expenditure (liaise with external consultants and HMRC as necessary).
5. Prepare year end capital schedules for inclusion in the year end accounts.
6. Ensure the asset register is reflecting assets correctly.
7. Raise and post annual indexation and monthly depreciation journal.
8. Maintain a reconciliation of the revaluation reserve account.
9. Reconcile the asset register back to the figures held in the general ledger.
10. Prepare balance sheet control accounts on a monthly basis and raise journal corrections as necessary. The control account includes various creditor, debtor and payroll accounts.
11. Act as the main liaison between the Trust and VAT external support.
12. Continually review procedures and controls relevant to own role, and managed areas.
13. Support and work closely with the Senior Technical Accountant on producing the year end accounts specifically relating to Payables.
14. To directly manage and support staff development within the Financial Services Department.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB Qualified or part qualified.

Experience

Essential

• Expert knowledge of Financial Services, NHS & NHS Foundation Trust financial regimes, financial and non-financial aspects of NHS legislation.
• An advanced practical knowledge of NHS legislation & policies (e.g. FTARM and underpinning accounting policies) and legislative and accounting requirements.
• Additional specialist knowledge on accounting for VAT as it relates to the Trust.
• Previous experience in a role within financial services.
• Experience of staff management.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook and Excel.
• The ability to communicate information to colleagues, other hospital staff and individuals outside of the organisation in a confident and professional manner.
• The ability to pay close attention to detail in written and electronic communication and information storage.
• Demonstrate proficient written communication skills.
• Be proactive in organising, prioritising and adjusting own workload in relation to the priorities of the department on a daily basis.
• Strong analytical and judgmental skills.
• Demonstrates personal duty of care in relation to the safe use of equipment and other resources.
• Able to motivate a team.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion, Excellence, and Collaboration.
• Ability to treat all employee and other hospital information confidentially.
• Recognition of factors in maintaining own and others health, safety and security.
• Supportive of equality and values diversity.

Desirable

• Ability and willingness to travel between two 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Kingfisher House, Huntingdon
Kingfisher Way, Hinchingbrooke Business Park
Huntingdon
Cambridge
PE29 6FH
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