Senior Finance Analyst - Accounts

Job overview

Join our Financial Accounting Team and help ensure the accuracy, integrity and compliance of the Health Board's financial records.

You will be responsible for maintaining balance sheet accounts through timely reconciliations and ensuring appropriate accounting treatment to support the production of Annual Accounts, Whole of Government Accounts returns and monthly financial reporting.

Working closely with the Financial Accountant, you will support VAT and taxation activities, including preparing VAT returns to HMRC and responding to VAT queries. You will also ensure the correct accounting treatment of operational leases, salary sacrifice schemes and stock balances.

The role includes line management responsibility for a member of staff, including workload allocation, training, performance management and day-to-day supervision.

You will contribute to a range of Financial Accounting activities, including charitable funds, losses and other ad hoc work, and provide cover for the Financial Accountant when required.

We are looking for a proactive and organised individual with strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and experience in financial accounting, reconciliations and reporting. The successful candidate will be able to manage priorities, build effective working relationships and contribute to improving financial processes and controls.

Main duties of the job

Accounting

• In collaboration with the service aid the processing of all NHS creditor invoices that have reached the 10 week outstanding stage to ensure they do not reach arbitration stage, highlighting ongoing issues.
• Assist in the Agreement of Balances process throughout the year.
• Ensure schedules and accounting journals are prepared to apportion charges associated with salary sacrifice schemes and payroll deductions to the appropriate budget. This will involve regular liaison with NHS Wales Shared Services on resolving any issues or queries that may arise on the operation of salary sacrifice schemes.

VAT and Other Taxation Issues

• Aid in the preparation of the UHB’s VAT returns, ensuring systems are in place to correctly record VAT which requires an expert knowledge of NHS VAT rules. Will also provide advice and training on VAT matters across the UHB.
• Prepare and maintain procedure notes on the preparation of VAT returns and their underlying records.

Other

• Line management responsibilities for a Finance Officer (band 4), including all duties within that post. This also includes undertaking PDRs, performance management, leave approval and other duties associated with a line manager’s role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. Whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means being able to use Welsh in routine workplace situations, such as greeting customers, answering calls, responding to routine enquiries, providing information, arranging appointments and taking messages. Have a look at our ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below for more information. If you have these Welsh language skills, please apply.

Applicant requirements

Welsh language skills are desirable