Senior Finance Assistant

Senior Finance Assistant

The closing date is 08 February 2026

We are looking for a Senior Finance Assistant to join our team!

This is a 15 months fixed term position covering a secondment.

In this role you provide comprehensive, professional accounting support into the Trust's financial services team, which has responsibility for overseeing routine transactional processes to ensure sound financial control to the Trust's main bank accounts as well as its Charitable Fund.

We are looking for an organised individual who has a working knowledge of financial and non-financial computer systems (including Microsoft Word and Excel) to intermediate level.

If this sounds like the role for you then please apply today!

This role will include:

• Reconciliation of control accounts
• Clearance of interface files into the Trust's general ledger
• Raising of sales ledger invoices in accordance with a regular billing schedule as well as on an ad-hoc basis.
• Provide assistance for getting invoices approved on the payables ledger promptly and ensuring that these are cleared promptly by the budget manager.
• Support to the Trust's Treasury management activities, including aspects of credit control and leading on the chasing of outstanding customer debt, verifying payment requests issued by the team
• Support VAT/CIS return monthly process
• Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by analysing and entering charges from consolidated invoices across multiple budget centres
• Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by entering accrual and prepayment adjustments in accordance with contractual liabilities and charging to budget costs which may initially be processed against a suspense account.
• Support the financial processes required by the Trust to fulfil its statutory reporting obligations, e.g., production of annual accounts and the NHS Agreement of Balances exercise.
• Support Management Accounting team in the day-to-day management of income and expenditure budgets
• Support Management Accounting team in investigating financial queries and to provide advice to service managers and external suppliers

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert.

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

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