Financial Accountant; General Ledger

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The closing date is 13 February 2026

An 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).

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

Assist 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:

Acute Care

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

Primary Care

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

Community 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.

Specialist 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.

Achievements:

• 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.

ROU Asset register

To ensure that records relating to ROU asset capital accounting are accurately and effectively maintained on the Finance General Ledger and the Trusts 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 external audit requirements as required.

Co-ordinating reconciliation of specific Shared Business Service and local balance sheet reconciliations especially salary sacrifice schemes.

Internal (Management Accounts and payroll) and external (customers and suppliers) communications required when reconciling balance sheet accounts, for example, calculating and agreeing external recharges.

Knowledge of the use of control accounts and how to perform complex reconciliations required.

Reconciling certain balance sheet codes monthly actioning requirements such as journal corrections, raising sales invoices or other actions.

The ability to concentrate on complex financial information and calculations without loss of accuracy, for prolonged periods of time, with interruptions, is required.

Significant data analysis required with inputs into and exports out of the oracle finance system, Business Intelligence and creation/amendments of multiple excel spreadsheets.

Charity

Manage the Charitable Funds ledger system and the work of the Charitable Funds Officer.

Responsibility for the preparation of the Trusts Charitable Funds accounts in accordance with latest SORP.

Preparation of financial information for the Trusts Charitable Funds sub-committee.

Preparation of financial analysis for, and regular communication with, the Trusts Head of Charity.

Provisions

Create and maintain spreadsheets in order to provide an accurate calculation of provisions for accounts purposes e.g. pensions, employers and public liability claims against the Trust and permanent injury benefits awards referring to the latest technical accounting guidance.

Clinical and professional responsibilities

Maintain professional registrations as necessary.

Adhere to relevant code of practice of professional…