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Graduate Finance Trainee

Employer
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Tooting, London (Greater)
Salary
£30,786 - £37,841 pa inc. HCAS (inner)
Closing date
Aug 11, 2022

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Job Role
Finance Graduate
Sector
Healthcare
Contract Type
Graduate
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

What we’re looking for:

Degree educated, enthusiastic and motivated individual

Passion for Healthcare, wanting to make a differences to the local community.

Strong written and verbal communication skills

What you’ll get

fully-qualified accountant with the CIMA or ACCA qualification with all the training costs paid for and the opportunity to gain financial experience.

Flexible working and support through your training period and being part of a fantastic team to launch your finance and healthcare career.

You'll have an opportunity to progress while also earning a competitive salary.

 

Main duties of the job

The Finance Trainee Accountant will be accountable to the Finance Manager for delivering the financial services for the Trust. The role will rota around the finance department in order to gain the necessarily skills and experiences as required by their accounting body, covering both financial and management accounts departments

The role will work effectively across a multi-disciplinary team and maintain good communication networks within the finance department, budget holders and suppliers.

The role will produce financial information in accordance to strict timetables and short deadlines, ensuring that standing financial instructions and standing orders are adhered to.

The post holder will be required to study for their professional Accountancy qualifications. This post will be part of the Apprenticeship scheme working towards a Level 7 in Finance and will therefore spend 20% of the time training. This can be both formal training provided by an external body and in-house and on-the-job training. There will be full support towards a professional accountancy qualification. Continued employment will be subject to successful completion of exams and work performance.

 

Working for our organisation

St George’s University Hospital is a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

Our finance experts play a critical role in the success of our organisation and by joining our Management Accountant team, you'll have the chance to make a real impact early on. The team works with the Operational and Clinical staff to create the best patient care possible and supports the Trusts in delivering its strategic objectives.

 

We also expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good A level in Maths Degree (2:1 or above)
Desirable criteria
  • NHS Acute Trust experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to undertake accounting training
  • Team working
Desirable criteria
  • Some finance experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good level of competence in basic Excel, Word and Outlook
  • Advanced keyboard skills
  • Good communication and listening skills
  • Ability to communicate complex information effectively to all levels of staff
  • Good organisational skills used in planning the work priorities themselves
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness of current NHS finance issues
  • Knowledge of Accounting Standards

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Awareness of current NHS finance issues
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Accounting Standards

Other

Essential criteria
  • Calm and professional disposition
  • Self-motivated and enthusiastic
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet targets and deadlines
  • Able to work in a busy office environment that often demands high levels of concentration, while coping with frequent interruptions
  • Able to respond effectively to changing priorities
  • Able to manage a high volume workload
  • Able to work effectively with minimal management guidance / supervision
  • Logical and systematic in work processes
  • Good analytical and problem solving ability

Company

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides high quality, a comprehensive range of health services from leading-edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

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