Treasury Officer

Job overview

Working as part of a Treasury Team and reporting to the Treasury Manager to ensure all work associated with the Trust and subsidiaries (the Group) Annual Accounts are completed within the defined timetable. This will involve working with the Group’s External Auditor to ensure that all information is correct and that the Group not only fulfills its financial duties but achieves an unqualified audit reports.

Dependent on the needs of the business the Treasury duties could be carried out in the Treasury Office at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Women’s Hospital or remotely from home.

A key rotational role will be to ensure the Cashiers Offices are fully manned and operational within the opening hours determined by the Chief Financial Officer. There is a Cashiers Office located in both the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Dependent on the needs of the business cover needs to be given to both sites. The Cashier role involves Customer Service to patients, staff and liaising with Cash carriers.

Work with the Trust’s Internal Auditors when the Treasury Department is audited, sharing processes and procedures. This will require implementing any proposed recommendations within agreed timescales.

Main duties of the job

Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies. There are both balance sheet reconciliations and salary deduction reconciliations requiring different processes.

Analyses financial data to identify errors and rectifies problems from a range of options. This could be errors identified on Petty Cash reconciliations that have been incorrectly receipted to the Finance Ledger that need correcting or payroll entries being posted to wrong control accounts.

Various salary deduction schemes require complex calculations about payments and decisions whether and how to pursue over/underpayments on these Schemes need to be made e.g. Travel cards, childcare, salary sacrifice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.