Assistant Financial Accountant

Job summary

An exciting job opportunity in Financial Services

Job summary

To work with the Senior Leadership Team Financial Services ensuring all financial accounting processes are completed accurately and within the deadlines set out in the Finance Accounts Timetable.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the ICB monthly and year end reporting processes, working within fixed deadlines to enable monthly/annual returns to be completed on time.

To be responsible for the reconciliation of all allocated balance sheet control accounts, and the clearing of any outstanding reconciling items, within specific deadlines; and to maintain appropriate working papers each month.

To assist in the preparation and review of the VAT returns for the ICB. Where necessary working with its VAT advisors and the wider finance department to ensure timely and accurate recovery and payment of VAT.

To be a point of contact for the wider finance team for VAT matters, providing advice and support. Analysing complex data from the Trust's VAT advisors to identify trends.

Support and assist the Payments Officer in the distribution of invoices, supplier maintenance, payments and other ledger maintenance duties.

Ensure that the ICB key financial controls are understood and maintained by all staff and reviewed regularly.

Provide support Financial Services team in completing the quarterly Agreement of Balances exercise.

Processing of IR35 claims

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.