Finance Officer - Treasury & Controls

Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust's monthly financial information and annual statutory accounts. Maintaining the Trusts supplier database, updating and recording supplier information, being fraud aware and carrying out security checks on supplier information. Ensure Trust income is recorded and receipted accurately and within monthly financial reporting schedules. Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense codes. Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions. Support band 4 with the Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) process, maintaining database, interrogation of patient administration system and submitting forms to compensation recovery unit.,

• Proactively contribute to the production of the Trust's monthly financial information and annual statutory accounts
• Maintaining the Trusts supplier database, updating and recording supplier information, being fraud aware and carrying out security checks on supplier information.
• Ensure Trust income is recorded and receipted accurately and within monthly financial reporting schedules.
• Responsible for monitoring and clearing suspense codes.
• Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise in relation to income and expenditure transactions.
• Support band 4 with the Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) process, maintaining database, interrogation of patient administration system and submitting forms to compensation recovery unit.
• Continually seek to identify areas for improvement within Financial Services and propose procedures to facilitate this while understanding the impact of the sections work on other areas of the Finance department.
• Analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries, identifying solutions from a range of options.
• Responsible for planning and organising own workloads to meet departmental timetables and deadlines, working between a number of tasks at any one time, prioritising workload as required.
  
  AAT or equivalent (Intermediate Level), Previous Finance Experience including knowledge of vat, petty cash, reconciling control
• Possess a high degree of numeracy and accuracy and the ability to work with numbers
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office particularly Excel, Access and Word., Numerate
• Ability to organize their own work and use initiative to ensure that all tasks are completed
• Good communication in order to work effectively, confidently liaising with staff within the department, Trust and other Trusts.
• Demonstrates high level of commitment to personal and professional development, Adaptable and flexible
• Good communicator
  
  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.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.