Key Responsibilities:
1. Work with the Income Analyst to prepare accurate and timely monthly Service Line Reporting information on the income and expenditure position for budget holders, ensuring high accuracy through significant data analysis.
2. Provide evidence for the completion of financial accounts, including robust working papers for internal and external audit.
3. Support the Head of Costing, Contracting and Income in preparing and monitoring costing through processing and analyzing PLICs data.
4. Assist management accountants with costing information for year-end forecasting using complex and sensitive information.
5. Communicate with other finance department members to maintain a consistent message across different Directorates.
6. Assist in the annual budget setting process regarding costing.
7. Prepare accurate and timely monthly Service Line Reporting information, making it understandable and useful for readers.
8. Analyze complex financial trends and forecast strategic and operational income, explaining key costing metrics clearly.
9. Assist in the preparation of costing considerations in business cases using procedure level data.
10. Review, improve, and update policies and procedures regarding costing and financial management.
11. Provide costing training to finance team members and training to non-finance managers.
12. Produce costing returns within NHS Timetables and improve cost pool allocations.
13. Produce patient level costs and service line reports for each directorate.
14. Perform regular checks of patient level costs, identifying and correcting outliers.
15. Produce evidence and calculations to support reference costs and SLR.
16. Enable identification of reasons for cost variances from the national tariff.
17. Support the calculation of private patient contracts with insurance companies.
18. Produce benchmarking comparisons for efficiency and Value for Money gains.
19. Assist in identifying Cost Improvement Programmes.
20. Understand guidance on costing changes in the NHS and provide expert advice.
21. Improve financial systems in the area of responsibility, enhancing data quality.
22. Delegate tasks to Assistant Accountants and work with the Finance Team for departmental efficiency.
23. Support the vision and strategy of the finance department and wider trust.
24. Work with a large degree of autonomy, completing appropriate costing returns with guidance from the Head of Costing, Contracting and Income.
25. Provide cover for the release of payments from the Trust bank account.
26. Carry out other duties as directed by the Head of Costing, Contracting and Income.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties, and a regular review will take place with the postholder as part of their ongoing development and performance management.
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