Financial Accountant

The post holder will provide an efficient, high quality and customer focused financial accounting service to the Trust, leading on day-to-day cash management to ensure the Trust's commitments can be met, managing all bank accounts and investments. They will also be responsible for ensuring VAT is accounted correctly and will provide advice and guidance to a range of managers and stakeholders relating to VAT rules and regulations. The post holder will work closely with the Financial and Capital Accounting, deputising when required, and with the Assistant Financial and Capital Accountant and the Accounts Assistant, ensuring that the team collaborates effectively to meet all deadlines, The post holder will provide an efficient, high quality and customer focused financial accounting service to the Trust, leading on day-to-day cash management to ensure the Trust's commitments can be met, managing all bank accounts and investments. They will also be responsible for ensuring VAT is accounted correctly and will provide advice and guidance to a range of managers and stakeholders relating to VAT rules and regulations. The post holder will work closely with the Financial and Capital Accounting, deputising when required, and with the Assistant Financial and Capital Accountant and the Accounts Assistant, ensuring that the team collaborates effectively to meet all deadlines Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.