Financial Management Assistant

To support the Clinical Financial and Business Manager and the Deputy Clinical Finance and Business Manager in the provision of financial management information and advice to a Clinical Division and to the Trust as a whole.
The post-holder will work both as part of a team and independently as required. Assisting in the production of timely accurate and relevant information for the completion of monthly board reports and ad hoc reporting in accordance with the trust Standing Financial Instruction to ensure that the Trust meets all reporting deadlines and financial obligations., + To Assist the Clinical Finance and Business Manager in the preparation and compilation of detailed budgets, provide monthly and ad hoc financial management information for budget
queries in a tactful, timely and efficient manner for both information and planning purposes for the division.
+ To communicate with budget holders in all aspects of budget management, to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and budget variances. To provide managers with the relevant information, including sensitive information such as staff pay costs through supplying trend analyses and reconciliations to enable budget holders to take corrective action on under/overspent budgets.
+ Calculating monthly recharges to both internal and external users relating to services provided, including liaising with customers and resolving queries from customers in a tactful and timely
manner.
+ To produce monthly trading accounts where applicable.
+ To ensure the Division's vacancy control forms are funded and authorised by the budget holder.
+ To ensure the timely distribution of reports to budget holders in accordance with the monthly reporting timetable.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
+ The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
+ Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
+ Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.