Assistant Finance Analyst

Description:

This is an exciting time to join the trust and finance team, as we are looking at our modernisation and moving to best in class. This is especially true in the areas of business partnering where we want to provide a high quality financial service to our operational colleagues.

The Assistant Finance Analyst will provide Financial Management support to the Finance Analyst and Finance Business Partner to deliver timely and accurate monthly management accounts and budget information for a clinical division.

The Assistant Finance Analyst will provide support and direction for budget holders as well as investigating and reporting on variances.

Main duties include:
To support the Finance Analysts (FA’s) with the calculation and input of month end journals using accruals and prepayments by the agreed deadlines.

To support the FA’s to ensure all expenditure is reported on the correct cost centre and expenditure codes by providing budget holders with reports for review such as Payroll listings, and to take action to recode costs as applicable.

To support the FA’s with variance analysis, trend analysis, and producing monthly financial performance reports.

To support the FA’s and budget holders with identifying and costing financial pressures.

To support with central tasks including control account reconciliations, and the processing and monitoring of temporary staffing and additional sessions data.

To support the FA’s with establishment control reviews including the review of all requests to recruit staff.

To meet budget holders on a monthly basis to review financial positions.

To support the FA’s to ensure all budget holders receive appropriate training.

To support the FA’s to support the resolution of ad-hoc queries and costings to the Healthcare Groups.

To support the FA’s in the annual budget setting process.