Senior Financial Management Assistant

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Business Unit Accountant to join our Financial Management team here at University Hospital of Derby and Burton. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to work in a fast moving Management Accounts Team.

You will play a key role part of the team responsible for the preparation of management accounting information to the Trust.

We are looking for a highly motivated, hardworking, and focused individual who is able to provide accurate financial and analytical support within the team and to budget holders.

The job role is wide and varied and hence you must be able to manage competing demands for your time. Flexibility and adaptability are key to this role, as is a desire to learn and develop.

Your main responsibilities will be to support the production of accurate and timely monthly statements, including prepayments, invoicing and journals. Supporting the Business Unit Accountants in investigating and explaining financial variances from budgets. Assisting in the budget setting process and the maintenance of supporting information for this.

Closing date of applications: 19 January 2025

Interview date: 31st January 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts About Our Trust

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jo Rooney Job title: Business Unit Accountant Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01332 788656