Assistant Financial Accountant - Income and Charitable Funds

At Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, patient care is at the heart of everything we do.

The post holder will provide operational and accounting support across the Trust's sales ledger, income collection and Hampshire Hospitals Charity functions. They will process sales orders, support debt recovery and credit memo activity, analyse aged debt and income collection performance, maintain accurate customer and transaction records, and contribute to effective financial control and reporting.

The post holder will undertake day-to-day and month-end accounting for charitable funds, including processing income and expenditure, preparing reconciliations, maintaining fund and authorised signatory records, producing monthly management accounts and reports, responding to finance enquiries, and supporting year-end accounts and audit requirements.

The role requires a well-organised and customer-focused individual who can manage competing deadlines, investigate and resolve queries, apply financial controls and maintain clear audit trails across both areas.

Main duties of the job

Sales Ledger and Income Collection

o Process accurate and authorised Trust sales orders, resolving customer, coding, invoicing and system queries with relevant teams.

o Monitor and progress aged debt, disputes, credit memos and unresolved ledger items, escalating issues and supporting debtor performance targets.

o Provide guidance and identify improvements to income collection processes, controls, systems and reporting.

Charitable Funds Accounting

o Process charitable income, expenditure, journals and finance enquiries, maintaining accurate fund, signatory and accounting records.

o Complete the month end close, prepare management accounts and complete monthly reconciliations, investigating variances and differences.

o Prepare VAT exemption certificates

o Support the year-end accounts and audit with working papers, evidence and query responses.

Financial Controls, Systems and Team Support

o Support Oracle Fusion implementation through data validation, testing, documentation, user guidance and go-live activity.

o Maintain effective records, handovers, procedures and audit trails, working within Trust and Charity financial controls and contributing to service improvements.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.