Assistant Accountant

• Good planning and organisational skills are essential:o Required to plan own workload in line with strict departmental timetables for weekly, monthly and annual accounts
• Advanced Keyboard skills are required, with speed and accuracy
• Contributes to the production and monitoring of detailed Directorate and/or Departmental pay and non-pay expenditure and non-patient care income budgets.
• Expected to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although advice available if required as guided by the Trust's Corporate Governance policies and procedures. Work is managed rather than supervised.
• Utilises a range of financial and other reporting software products to provide Directorate Management with timely and accurate financial and supporting information. Examples include:o Design, development and maintenance of complex spreadsheetso Utilising database software for large volumes of datao Utilising supplementary systems such as Payroll Data Query (PDQ)o Working knowledge of other reporting packages

• To ensure that financial controls are maintained within Corporate Governance guidelines.
• To assist the Directorate Accountant with the production of the monthly financial statement.
• Under the direction of senior staff to have reporting responsibility for specific Directorates or Departments.
• Production of budgets for specific areas of reporting responsibility.
• Responding to queries from Directorate and Departmental Managers.
• To provide supervisory support to Band 3 and Band 2 colleagues.

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

Desirable

• Previous NHS Finance experience
• Experience in a Finance Department
• Knowledge of NHS and non-NHS legislation and how it effects own area of work
• Knowledge of Management Accounting procedures and techniques including variance analysis
• A good working knowledge of financial and non-financial computer systems

Essential

• Able to work autonomously to manage own workload and change priorities as necessary to achieve key tasks, although with advice available if required
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills are essential
• Ability to be able to work independently or part of a team, to ensure strict deadlines are adhered to
• Able to modify, structure, maintain and present financial data and information