Divisional Accounting Assistant

The post holder will provide support to the Income Accountant in the delivery of financial and statutory obligations of the Trusts Financial Management function. Responsibility for producing financial information and providing support to a group of clinical and departmental budget holders. To be a key member of the Trust’s Finance Department and contribute to the delivery of its overall objectives.

They will be a member of the income team, providing complex financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues. They will support aspects of service area financial and business performance and financial management processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

Working with the Income Accountant, the post holder will develop and produce information to support accurate and timely monthly performance reports for presentation at service meetings and to feed into the Trusts position for internal and external corporate reporting. There will be a requirement to discuss this review with budget holders.

To achieve this, the post holder will be expected to work with the clinicians and budget holders within the service area to model financial information to enable informed decision making on business processes and plans, which improve and enhance the overall productivity of the Trust.

The post holder will support the Income Accountant in the preparation of robust financial forecasts to be agreed with the Finance Manager and Assistant Head of Finance. This will include supporting the planning process and associated work streams.

They will deputise for the Income Accountant as and when necessary.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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While responsible to the Income Accountant the post holder works under minimum supervision, and is responsible for ensuring that a range of deadlines are met within the section.

This post requires a high level of initiative in dealing with queries from Managers, Clinicians, other staff within the Trust and Commissioners. Decisions on day to day operational issues can be made and in the case of complex issues, with reference to the Income Accountant.

It would be expected that a member of staff in this post would to a large extent manage and prioritise their own workload and that of support staff, to ensure predetermined deadlines are met in a timely manner.

This post requires excellent communication and working relationships within the Finance Department, the Trust and externally. In particular the post has to deal with a high volume of queries from the Commissioners.

It is expected that the post holder would communicate complex financial matters to non-financial staff such as Clinicians, Clinical Managers and administrators.

The post holder is responsible for at least one other member of staff and there will be responsibility to train new staff in what is quite a technically demanding role.

The nature of the position requires that the post plays an important role in the financial reporting of the Trust. High levels of IT skills are essential to deal with the wide range of systems used within the department.

It is expected that the post holder would be actively pursuing a recognised professional qualification, or possess the equivalent experience.

The nature of the post requires a high level of VDU usage. In addition, the monthly reporting cycle requires a high level of input for approximately 2 weeks out of every month, this can be extremely demanding at times.

To take responsibility for the maintenance and development of spreadsheets, delegating routine tasks to the Assistant Accountant, and reporting issues to the Income Accountant.

To ensure income and activity is recorded accurately. To discuss routine and more complex queries with internal managers and external bodies where necessary.

To provide support and advice to the Assistant Accountant in dealing with queries. Financial information and reports are produced in a timely and accurate manner.

Queries are dealt with in a timely and professional manner

To take responsibility for analysing income and activity, identifying variances, investigating