Finance Assistant
The closing date is 08 March 2026
Job summary
The post holder will provide comprehensive and professional accounting support within the Trust's Financial Services department. This role contributes to the effective oversight of routine transactional processes, ensuring strong financial control across the Trust's main exchequer accounts as well as its Charitable Fund. Working as part of the wider finance function, the post holder will help maintain accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations that support the Trust's overall financial governance and stewardship.
Main duties of the job
This will include the following activities under supervision:-
*Reconciliation of control accounts
*Raising of sales ledger invoices in accordance with a regular billing schedule as well as on an ad-hoc basis.
*Provide assistance for distributing invoices and getting them approved on the payables ledger promptly
*Support to the Trust's Treasury management activities, including cashiering, patient affairs, and aspects of credit control
*Support the department by obtaining backup for all relevant to areas of the department's operation and ensuring it is filed appropriately and promptly
*Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by analysing and entering charges from consolidated invoices across multiple budget centres
*Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by entering accrual and prepayment adjustments as required
*Supporting the annual accounts and monthly reporting process
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
23 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,937 to £26,598 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
348-COR-10558
Job locations
Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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