Financial Accounts Assistant

Job summary

• Assist with maintaining and improving the integrity of the Trust Balance Sheets for accounts receivable, accounts payables and cash and payroll transactions.
• Assist the Accounts Payable Manager and Accounts Receivable Manager with reporting and ad-hoc tasks.
• Assist with charity transactions and accounts as and when required.

Processing the month end interfaces between the Private Patients system and the main ledgers, and providing accounting support to the Private Patient accounts and administration team as necessary.

Review all reconciliations completed by SBS in relation to receivables, payables, payroll and cash and resolve any queries that arise in a timely manner.

Assist with Agreement of Balances for both Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables

Recording and processing losses and special payments.

Processing the Liaison weekly request for temporary workforce shifts payment.

Manage reporting for credit memo requests and ensure these are cleared in a timely manner.

Main duties of the job

• Produce specific monthly balance sheet reconciliations, resolving any issues within an agreed timescale.

• Process Faster Payments and one-off payment requests as necessary.
• File all completed forms and backup electronically.

• Assist the Hampshire Medical Fund to raise requisitions as required.

• Manage the timely completion of credit memo requests and approval of sales invoices.
• The main point of contact for direct queries from the SBS Debt Management Team.
• Closing the month on the standalone Private Patient IT system Compucare.
• Interfacing the closing position in Compucare into Oracle.
• Processing Journals for WIP as advised by the Private Patient management.

• Ensure the Balance Sheet and control codes are maintained as a true reflection of the Trust's financial position.
• Assist with completion of Agreement of Balances reconciliation for Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables
• Responsible for ad-hoc project work as required.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.