# Finance Officer – Transactional Services

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Finance officer
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 4 months (Secondment Opportunity until 28/02/2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02T15:54:03.349Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Norwich_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Finance/Finance-v8206144
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8206144?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Transactional Services team is a small busy team supporting the Trusts purchase to pay pathway and sales processes. Working as an interface between Trust employees and our outsourced service provider this role covers a wide range of tasks.

The role will interact with the wider finance team (financial services and management accounts) on a regular basis. All of these teams are hardworking supporting the Trust maintain its finance position, undertaking financial reporting and supporting the operational teams of the Trust.

You will be ensuring suppliers are paid in a prompt manner is a key target for all NHS organisations. The Trust also needs to ensure that it receives payment for all services undertaken in a prompt manner.

Interview date: 22 September 2026.

### Main duties of the job

The role will include

- Supplier and customer set up
- Data entry for both purchase and sales transactions
- Problem solving
- Liaising with a range of internal and external parties
- Management of purchase and sales ledger
- Maintaining spreadsheets
- Performing reconciliations

A number of these tasks will require to be undertaken on a daily basis, whilst others may be weekly or monthly.

There is a requirement to develop an understanding of the business as this will enable added value when problem solving.

The ability to work to rules which may be continually changing and remember key points is important to being successful in this role.

If you have the drive to be involved in process improvement, working in a proactive manner, educating end users and looking at the root cause of issues this role will offer these opportunities.

This role is not a traditional purchase ledger invoice matching role.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Good organisational skills
- Excellent communicator and good interpersonal skills
- Good IT skills

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Access

### Experience

**Essential**

- Data entry experience
- Working in a transactional finance team
- Use of finance systems

### Attitude, aptitude

**Essential**

- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focus, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

### Qualifications/training and professional development

**Essential**

- NVQ level 2 / AAT Level 3 (or equivalent)
- 5 GCSEs at C or above (or equivalent)

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