Job overview

This role is a training post within the finance department based in management accounts.

The trainee will be supported to achieve either a CIMA or ACCA qualification.  Support will include financial support, time off for study and access to a mentor within the department.

The postholder will receive a wide variety of experience, to support them to apply for a substantive post with an NHS Trust on completion of the training scheme.

The post will require a commitment to continuous improvement, supporting the development of financial processes alongside a desire to study for professional accountancy exams. Excellent interpersonal, team, and communication skills will be required to enable the post holder to fully support the managers and clinicians within the Directorate.

You will need to work within tight deadlines, work under pressure and possess a real drive to succeed. Academic and practical training will be provided, we well as ongoing senior management support with training and development.

Main duties of the job

The principle duty of the role will be to assist the Finance & Business Manager (Financial Management) in the provision of an expert management accounting service. During this role the trainee will acquire a broad range of practical management accounting experience.

Regular tasks and duties would include:

• Ensuring monthly accruals and prepayments are posted and accurate supporting documentation is maintained for these journals.
• Ensuring the budget statements are produced in line with the department’s monthly timetable.
• Access data from a variety of sources in order to produce variance analysis reports for budget holders and senior managers.
• Supporting the Assistant Director of Finance (Financial Management) in the production of the Finance Report to the Board
• Responding to queries from Budget Holders
• Ensuring that budgets are set in accordance with agreed business plans
• Assisting in the preparation of business plans, business cases and service change proposals, incorporating trend and risk analysis providing support to the decision making process across complex ranges of options.
• Assisting in the production of a monthly forecast of income and expenditure.

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.