Financial Accountant (General Ledger): Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available within the Finance Department at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The position of Financial Accountant (General Ledger) will be based at Knowsley Community College and will be full time (37.5 hours).

Interview Date is yet to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

Provide key aspects of financial accounting services which include updating and monitoring the Trust’s ROU asset register, preparation/review of the Trust’s Charitable Funds accounts, remeasurement and monitoring of provisions and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.Support the Assistant Director of Finance – Financial Services on aspects of internal and external reporting including monthly reporting and statutory year end accounts.Assist with the year end external audit exercise and be responsible for provision of information as it relates to the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Significant financial accounting experience
  • Supervisory experience
  • Experience of working in NHS finance
  • Experience of the Oracle General Ledger System including Business Intelligence
  • Experience of providing training and support to others in own specialist area
  • Evidence of planning and organising tasks required to achieve a specific outcome within a specified timeframe without direction from line manager
  • Experience of analysing, interpreting and presenting complex data and producing robust forecasts
  • Highly computer literate including MS Word, Excel, Access. Able to extract data, create and manipulate complex spreadsheets

Skills

Essential

  • Good standard of communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate complex financial information to nonfinance managers
  • Acts professionally in all dealings with colleagues and in liaising with external bodies; must be able to adapt style appropriately to deal diplomatically with senior personnel
  • Good standard of written communications
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Well organised, able to plan and prioritise own workload
  • Good negotiating and influencing skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to support change
  • Ability to manage conflicting priorities
  • Requirement to concentrate for long periods when inputting data and when analysing data/statistics

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 30 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.