West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
As the System Accountant, you will be responsible for supporting the Finance Systems Manager in ensuring that the Finance System is robustly maintained and improving the delivery of high quality data to colleagues throughout the Trust. This opportunity in a brand new role will develop your skills in both finance and IT.
Working both within a close-knit team and on your own initiative, this exciting role will bring your finance and IT knowledge together and will need a strong communicator who can encourage the adoption of improving technology.
Main duties of the job
An excellent understanding of Finance is a must as you will use this to develop and adapt existing reports, develop automations, manage the General Ledger, and provide access and training where relevant.
You'll need to be a confident communicator who manages their workload and time well as this role often has multiple deadlines to work within.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Experience and knowledge of financial services within the NHS
2. Involvement in financial exercises and submissions, with particular regard to quality of content
3. Experience of using computerised financial systems
4. NHS experience
5. Ability to analyse, investigate, summarise and present complex data appropriately to a range of audiences
6. Experience of writing complex crystal/software reports or any other compatible report writing tool.
7. Experience of managing interfaces between computer systems
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of Integra and HealthRoster
2. Experience of using Microsoft SQL
3. Experience of using PowerBI
4. An understanding of the information flows within the NHS
Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Knowledge of Microsoft Office and PowerPoint
2. Excellent knowledge and competency in Microsoft Excel
3. Sound knowledge of NHS statutory reporting, finance policy and NHS legislation
4. Knowledge of RPA (Robotic process automation) products
Desirable criteria
1. Understanding of the NHS Agenda
2. Knowledge of UIPath
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
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