Under the leadership/guidance and support from the Head of Costing: To support in the delivery through the development and implementation of Service Line Reporting (SLR) and Patient Level Costing (PLICS), utilising various data sources primarily through Civicas managed cloud costing platform model. Ensure the continuous improvement and refinement to apportionment methodologies, system enhancements and activity weightings. Build strong relationships with clinical and operational colleagues across the trust to promote engagement on the Trusts costing agenda. Undertake detailed analysis of complex patient level costing information, highlighting key variances and supporting colleagues in the interpretation of the information. Support any benchmarking work as required. Support the timely delivery of the annual national cost collection submission. Lead in the maintenance and review of the internal costing systems to meet the changing requirements from NHSEI national guidance and standards following the Costing Transformation Programme. This will require keeping up to date with developments of NHSEI costing standards and collection guidance. Continually review and update with finance and non-finance colleagues any improvements to apportionment methods to reflect the most appropriate way to allocate costs. Maintain the costing model and the upload of the costing ledger that reconciles to the annual accounts or quarterly ledger output.Represent the trust in discussions with other trusts or the national costing team on general or focussed costing work with peers. Maintain the Integrated Costing Assurance Log (ICAL) to record the decisions made within costing to prepare for SLR and PLICS. Please refer to the full job description for further details on the role.