Finance Assistant

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Finance team. As a Finance Assistant you will work as part of a team of six providing financial assistance across a range of clinical & non-clinical services., Key Management Accounts duties will involve supporting the Finance Business Partners to provide budget holders with financial support & advice and reviewing of departmental costs, while making appropriate adjustments through accrual & adjustment journals.

Assist in identifying variance from budget to ensure effective budgetary control by budget holders.

Support in the costing of information to assist both the month end process and divisional requests.

Alongside your Management Accounts duties key Financial Accounts duties will involve the raising of sales orders, coding of invoices received & reconcile pharmacy invoice data.

The successful candidate will be either looking to or working toward their AAT qualification, have experience of computerised financial ledgers, be able to communicate with both financial & non-financial colleague, be able to prioritise their workload and have good IT skills, especially proficient in the use of MS Excel.

The Finance Directorate at Royal Papworth Hospital pride themselves on being a level 3 Future Focussed Finance accredited organisation and an environment of excellence in which we nurture and develop our staff., Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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