Financial Accountant

Job summary

Hybrid working NHSBT is offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with proven technical ability and strong analytical skills to join the Financial Accounting and Control Team on a permanent basis. The role is based in Barnsley with flexibility for remote working.

You will ideally be an AAT member, studying towards and have ambitions to be a fully CCAB or CIMA-qualified accountant.

You will support the Senior Financial Accountant on a range of technical; compliance and regulatory issues; and financial accounting processes. They are the primary lead in accounting for the organisations fixed assets: maintaining the fixed asset register; ensuring completeness of documentation; liaising with capital stakeholders; and reporting and delivering routine capital monitoring information to track progress against the capital plan.

We are based in Barnsley and we operate on a hybrid working pattern which requires attending the office at least once a week.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Undertaking a series of month-end financial accounting tasks involving control accounts, together with the associated preparation and posting of journals to ensure the integrity of financial information and reporting.
• Maintaining the fixed asset register daily and ensuring the correct accounting treatment of all capital items, liaising with capital stakeholders; reporting and delivering routine capital monitoring information to track progress against the capital plan.
• Taking the lead in the asset verification exercise, investigating and resolving any discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Providing financial information as required to support in the completion of the Statutory annual accounts and Trust Fund accounts.
• Ensuring that work is completed within deadlines and that accurate working papers and supporting detailed information is available for external audit inspection.
• Working independently to agreed objectives, making decisions within broad professional policies requiring minimal advice from manager.

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.