Head of Transactional Services | Barts Health NHS Trust

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated CCAB Qualified Accountant to join the finance team. We are looking for a driven individual who is self-motivated, pro-active with excellent planning and organisational skills. The post holder is required to have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The post holder will lead the Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) services. They will be supported by an AP and an AR manager, who will be responsible for ensuring that the teams deliver to timetable and quality standards are achieved.

The post holder must be able to drive process changes, continuously seeking improvement in all that the teams do, and with a strong customer service focus at the forefront of all that they do.

Proposed interview date: 3rd December 2024

The post holder will support the monthly and year-end reporting cycles, ensuring that balances are correctly stated. They will ensure that the profile of payments and debts for future years reconciles to the available cash and funding streams.

The post holder must have significant experience in roles within NHS finance and be fully committed to continuous professional development.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a finance team within a large, specialist and complex organisation with great opportunities for learning and development.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.