Overview
This role supports the Financial Services team in delivering accurate and timely financial processes, ensuring compliance with procedures and deadlines. It contributes to maintaining effective financial controls, resolving queries, and providing guidance to colleagues. The post requires 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and may close early if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received, so interested candidates should apply promptly.
About the Trust
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is a proud provider of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values. We are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
* People at the Heart
* Listen and Involve
* Kind and Respectful
* ONE Team
We value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and our patients. Whilst vaccination is not a condition of employment, we encourage staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, advice and information are available by contacting covid-19.vaccine@wwl.nhs.uk.
Responsibilities
* Assist in the reconciliation of control accounts and associated queries.
* Understand accounting procedures including reconciliations, VAT payments and deductions, and general ledger coding structures.
* Support the allocation of private patient income and deposits, identifying any under‑or over‑payments and ensuring corrective action is taken.
* Assist in the allocation of all trust income.
* Deputise and provide support for the Accounts Receivable Officer to undertake debt collection activities where appropriate and resolve complex payment issues, including those of a sensitive nature.
* Print and dispatch invoices and credit notes following invoice/credit generation within the sales ledger, via email, post or other distribution methods identified in the procedures.
* Produce and send dunning letters to the debtor in accordance with agreed debt‑collection procedures.
* Record all debtor contact in accordance with agreed debt‑collection procedures, documenting notes on comments reports.
* Assist with monitoring the trust’s credit card expenditure and investigate any anomalies.
* Communicate finance policies and procedures to finance and non‑finance colleagues in line with Trust SFIs (Standing Financial Instructions).
* Assist in the preparation of several working papers to substantiate figures reported in the Trust Annual Accounts.
* Assist in the completion of the NHS agreement of balances exercise for both debtor/creditor balances and income and expenditure transactions, identifying discrepancies and taking corrective action where appropriate.
* Assist in clearing unallocated cash in the general ledger.
* Assist in completing the monthly bank reconciliation.
* Liaise with internal and external auditors, providing required information.
* Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within Financial Services and recommend procedural enhancements, while maintaining awareness of the impact on other areas of the Finance department.
* Analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries, identifying solutions from a range of options.
* Other duties as required for the role.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025.
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