Job summary
Career Opportunity in Finance - Join our Income and Costing Team!
Sheffield Children's is looking for a Support Cost Accountant to join our Income and Costing team. You will assist the Principal Income and Costing Accountant in managing the Trust's Patient Level Costing (PLICS) model, ensuring accurate internal reporting and submission of national cost collections.
You will maintain the Trust's costing software, ensure accurate data input and cost allocation updates, and produce costed outputs for both internal and external reporting. Additionally, you will help keep the cost model current with industry best practices and analyse data to support decision-making across services.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the Trust's financial management while developing your expertise in costing and financial analysis. If this role sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Reporting into the Principal Income and Cost Accountant, your responsibilities will include:
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Maintain the costing system, ensuring data accuracy and cost allocation.
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Produce and distribute costing reports for our internal and external partners.
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Manage our Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation dashboards, investigate outliers, and ensure report accuracy. Administer user access and licence records.
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Ensure system updates and maintain audit-compliant documentation.
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Attend costing meetings and support benchmarking efforts.
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Provide training on costing dashboards and collaborate to resolve issues.
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Analyse cost data to support the Trust's Value Improvement Process.
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Stay current with costing standards and participate in relevant forums.
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Support the Trust's goals by promoting accurate costing data and clinical engagement.
About us
At Sheffield Children's, our purpose is clear: to provide healthier futures for children and young people. Our three strategic aims are:
- Outstanding Patient Care
- Brilliant Place to work
- Leaders in Children's Health
We work successfully with local, regional, and national partners to provide physical and mental healthcare across acute and community settings. Many of our clinicians are amongst the best in their field, recognised nationally and internationally for their expertise.
As well as having enormous pride in what we do, we are a friendly, welcoming, and motivated NHS Trust who are guided by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our nearly 4000 colleagues live these values, ensuring kind and compassionate care that makes patients and their families feel safe and at home.
As we approach our 150th anniversary in 2026, we remain committed to enhancing our reputation in children's health leadership, improving the experiences of both patient and colleagues, and focusing on our communities and population health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Maths and English GCSE or equivalent at grade C or above
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Degree or equivalent
- AAT technician or equivalent
- Usercost training
- Costing training
Experience
Essential
- Accountancy / Finance department work experience
- Experience of building working relationships with colleagues of varying relationshipsworking with internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- NHS Finance experience
- NHS Patient level costing experience in an acute Trust
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of the issues facing the NHS
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of accounting processes and procedures
- Knowledge of costing principles and activity based costing
- Highly experienced user of excel and access
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team and be a supportive work colleague
- Ability to produce complex data analysis using large datasets
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience of using UserCost costing software
- Knowledge with Qlikview
- SQL skills to analyse data
- Use iof financial systems to provide high quality reporting and analysis
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Good problem solving ability
- Highly numerate and analytical
- Excellent verbal reasoning
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Maths and English GCSE or equivalent at grade C or above
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Degree or equivalent
- AAT technician or equivalent
- Usercost training
- Costing training
Experience
Essential
- Accountancy / Finance department work experience
- Experience of building working relationships with colleagues of varying relationshipsworking with internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- NHS Finance experience
- NHS Patient level costing experience in an acute Trust
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of the issues facing the NHS
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of accounting processes and procedures
- Knowledge of costing principles and activity based costing
- Highly experienced user of excel and access
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team and be a supportive work colleague
- Ability to produce complex data analysis using large datasets
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience of using UserCost costing software
- Knowledge with Qlikview
- SQL skills to analyse data
- Use iof financial systems to provide high quality reporting and analysis
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Good problem solving ability
- Highly numerate and analytical
- Excellent verbal reasoning
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
