Job summary
We have an opportunity for a Senior Costing Accountant to join our Income and Costing team
You will be supporting the Head of Costing and SLR working with informatics and business support departments to maintain and develop the Trusts Patient Level Information and Costing (PLICS) models in order to produce accurate and timely costing and analytical information to support the Trusts costing returns (National Cost Collection) and the development of Service Line Reporting (SLR).
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for devising, developing, managing and effectively implementing highly complex costing information systems and solutions, using knowledge of costing principles and techniques.
- Plan, schedule and complete costing projects (including annual national returns and Service Line Reporting) with a high degree of autonomy.
- Progress the development of the Costing System within the Trust to meet the external costing requirements detailed in the NHS Costing Manual.
- Keep up to date with any new legislation or requirements issued by the Department of Health.
- Produce detailed audit trails and reconciliation's for the costed financial and activity values at various control levels in line with costing guidance and Audit requirements.
- Critically review significant changes in service costs and activity within the Trust between comparative years.
- Produce benchmarking data, comparing the Trusts costs and activities against those published by other organisations.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will meet the 'Essential Criteria' of the Job Description, you should be a CCAB/CIMA part qualified accountant, self-motivated and IT literate with significant experience in Costing/ Finance or Information environment.
The post holder will lead on the National Costing Collection and any other costing submissions on behalf of the Trustensuring that high quality submissions are submitted in line with national deadlines and will support the production of Service Line Reporting (SLR).
Please refer to the detailed job description for more details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will meet the 'Essential Criteria' of the Job Description, you should be a CCAB/CIMA part qualified accountant, self-motivated and IT literate with significant experience in Costing/ Finance or Information environment.
The post holder will lead on the National Costing Collection and any other costing submissions on behalf of the Trustensuring that high quality submissions are submitted in line with national deadlines and will support the production of Service Line Reporting (SLR).
Please refer to the detailed job description for more details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB part-qualified or finalist
Desirable
- Education to degree level standard or equivalent
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of finance issues in healthcare e.g.
- Demonstrable knowledge of National Tariff and NHS costing and income flows
- Possess expert specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial and other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies.
- Strong IT skills in Excel, Access and other software packages, incorporating the input of financial data, creation and manipulation of spreadsheets
- Experience of using General Ledger and Financial reporting software packages
- Relevant finance experience.
- At least three years working in NHS finance function.
- Proven track record in the costing area of finance with experience at a senior level
Desirable
- Advanced Knowledge of Access and other analytical tools and be able to manipulate data to produce useful reports.
- 3 years post qualification experience
- Use of specialist financial software
- Previous NHS Finance experience including costing and income.
- Experience in using Costmaster or equivalent costing system.
- Five years plus NHS experience of varying aspects of the finance function
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB part-qualified or finalist
Desirable
- Education to degree level standard or equivalent
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of finance issues in healthcare e.g.
- Demonstrable knowledge of National Tariff and NHS costing and income flows
- Possess expert specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial and other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies.
- Strong IT skills in Excel, Access and other software packages, incorporating the input of financial data, creation and manipulation of spreadsheets
- Experience of using General Ledger and Financial reporting software packages
- Relevant finance experience.
- At least three years working in NHS finance function.
- Proven track record in the costing area of finance with experience at a senior level
Desirable
- Advanced Knowledge of Access and other analytical tools and be able to manipulate data to produce useful reports.
- 3 years post qualification experience
- Use of specialist financial software
- Previous NHS Finance experience including costing and income.
- Experience in using Costmaster or equivalent costing system.
- Five years plus NHS experience of varying aspects of the finance function
Additional information
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).
