Corporate Financial Accountant

Job summary

Hybrid Working

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with proven technical ability and strong analytical skills to join NHSBTs Financial Accounting and Control Team for 12 months. This role will surely provide you with valuable experience which can broaden your horizons as you will by key support for the year-end process and audit. The role is based in Barnsley with flexibility for remote working.

You will support the Senior Financial Accountant on a range of technical; compliance and regulatory issues; and financial accounting processes. Ensuring completeness of documentation; liaising with various internal and external stakeholders; your technical accounting skills will also be needed for the more complex aspects of assets revaluation and the production of the Trust Fund Accounts. Excellent communication skills are a must with knowledge of NHS accounting and NHS VAT treatment.

Main duties of the job

In this role you join the Finance team in a thriving organisation, supporting the Senior Financial Accountant with accounting such as financial control reviews in areas of suspected fraud or other risk. Your responsibilities will be:

• Identifying non-compliance with policies (including those with taxation impacts) and to resolve the issues either through addressing non-compliance or redesign of the policy.
• Managing and produce the Trust Fund Accounts ensuring prompt and accurate reporting to the committee and prompt and accurate accounts are produced for audit and in time for submission to the Charity Commission.
• Being responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring the losses and special payments register.
• Providing reports for senior finance management and liaising with External Audit on losses and special payments reporting.
• Acting as key contact with Internal Audit on co-ordination of audit reports, audit responses and outstanding audit issues, reviewing audit recommendations, management comments and timescales making changes where appropriate.
• Following up implementation of agreed NHSBT management comments, preparing reports for the Governance and Audit Committee.
• Being an operational lead in investigating the outputs from the National Fraud Initiative. Supporting in the production of the statutory year end accounts.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.