Graduate Finance Trainee

Job summary

The Finance Trainee Accountant will be accountable to the Finance Manager for delivering the financial services for the Trust. The role will rota around the finance department in order to gain the necessarily skills and experiences as required by their accounting body, covering both financial and management accounts departments

The role will work effectively across a multi-disciplinary team and maintain good communication networks within the finance department, budget holders and suppliers.

The role will produce financial information in accordance to strict timetables and short deadlines, ensuring that standing financial instructions and standing orders are adhered to.

The post holder will be required to study for their professional Accountancy qualifications. This post will be part of the Apprenticeship scheme working towards a Level 7 in Finance and will therefore spend 20% of the time training. This can be both formal training provided by an external body and in-house and on-the-job training. There will be full support towards a professional accountancy qualification. Continued employment will be subject to successful completion of exams and work performance.

Main duties of the job

Management Accounts

1. Ensuring monthly accruals and prepayments are posted and accurate supporting documentation is maintained for these journals.
2. Ensuring the budget statements are produced in line with the department's monthly timetable.
3. Access data from a variety of sources in order to produce variance analysis reports for budget holders and senior managers.
4. Supporting the Assistant Director of Finance (Financial Management) in the production of the Finance Report to the Board
5. Responding to queries from Budget Holders
6. Ensuring that budgets are set in accordance with agreed business plans
7. Assisting in the preparation of business plans, business cases and service change proposals, incorporating trend and risk analysis providing support to the decision-making process across complex ranges of options.
8. Assisting in the production of a monthly forecast of income and expenditure.

Financial Accounts

1. Accurately and promptly completing reconciliations of suspense and control accounts
2. Creditor invoice entry, invoice processing, purchase order processing and dealing with queries from suppliers.
3. Raising invoices to debtors, collection of income and dealing with queries on outstanding debts
4. Maintenance of cashbooks and cashflow forecasting
5. Assisting in the preparation of the annual accounts

About us

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.