The Assistant Financial Accountant will be responsible for supporting the Senior Financial Accountant to provide a high quality and comprehensive Financial Accounting service.
The post holder will: -
• Assist in the timely and accurate completion of Control Account reconciliations.
• Ensure employee salary deductions are made in a timely and accurate manner.
• Process manual payments in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• Act as relief cashier for the Trust’s inpatient sites when needed.
• Provide support as required for the ELFT Charity
They will contribute to the achievement of the overall objectives of the Finance Department and deputise for the Senior Financial Accountant where appropriate.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• To process all manual salary payments, manual Accounts Payable payments, manual cheques and patient’s monies payments, ensuring that the necessary paperwork is obtained and payments are in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• Tocomplete monthly control account reconciliations as delegated to them by the Senior Financial Accountant.
• To liaise with appropriate third parties (including Payroll, HR and SBS) to clear outstanding reconciling items in a timely manner.
• To assist in the preparation of monthly bank reconciliations for the Trust’s bank accounts, ensuring reconciling items are cleared promptly and outstanding items are reviewed regularly and written back where necessary.
• To prepare regular summaries of the pensions received from DWP in the patient’s monies account and send to the appropriate cashier/welfare officer.
• To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in ensuring that any money held by the Trust on behalf of patients is managed correctly by ensuring that monthly reconciliations are completed.
• To act as the relief cashier for the Trust’s inpatient sites when needed.
• To monitor and process petty cash claims for sub-floats where there is no access to an on-site cashier.
• To provide regular analysis of petty cash expenditure.
• To assist in the administration of the Trust Purchase Card expenditure database and provide regular analysis reports.
• To assist in the recovery of all monies owed to the Trust by the staff loans, leases, and salary sacrifice schemes.
• To process expenses claims for non-substantive staff e.g. students & honorary staff.
• To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in the management of the Trust’s lease cars including the processing of invoices and recovery of debts owed by employees in relation to lease cars.
• To assist the Senior Financial Accountant in the monthly recharges of consolidated invoices such as stationery, taxis, hotels and travel.
• To assist with the Agreement of Balances exercise, particularly in relation to creditors.
To ensure that at all times there is a valid audit trail for any entries made to the financial ledger.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr