Financial Accountant; General Ledger

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bAn exciting opportunity has become available within the Finance Department at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The position of Financial Accountant (General Ledger) will be based at Knowsley Community College and will be full time (37.5 hours).

bProvide key aspects of financial accounting services which include updating and monitoring the Trust’s ROU asset register, preparation/review of the Trust’s Charitable Funds accounts, remeasurement and monitoring of provisions and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.

bSupport the Assistant Director of Finance – Financial Services on aspects of internal and external reporting including monthly reporting and statutory year end accounts.

bAssist with the year end external audit exercise and be responsible for provision of information as it relates to the role.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

bAcute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

bPrimary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

bCommunity Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

bSpecialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

bAchievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

bROU Asset register

To ensure that records relating to ROU asset capital accounting are accurately and effectively maintained on the Finance General Ledger and the Trust’s ROU asset register including regular reconciliations to assist in the accurate production of the Trust Balance Sheet to the required reporting timetable.

To liaise with budget holders, Divisional managers and the Assistant Director of Finance to ensure continued accurate identification of additions, cessations, upgrades and replacements / damaged / obsolete ROU assets. The ROU asset register will be updated as necessary for such amendments.

Informing Assistant Director of Finance – Financial Services of any issues that arise and help inform the resolution process.

Assist in the production of statutory annual accounts for the Trust. This will also include taking part in the national agreement of balances exercises.

Dealing with internal and…