Finance Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Finance Assistant within the Trust's Financial Services Department, providing comprehensive accounting support. The successful candidate will help manage financial activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance with established procedures. Key responsibilities include control account reconciliation, sales ledger invoicing, and supporting treasury management and monthly reporting cycles. This is a fixed-term, part-time position.
Key responsibilities
- Reconciliation of control accounts
- Raising of sales ledger invoices
- Provide assistance for distributing and approving invoices on the payables ledger
- Support to the Trust's Treasury management activities, including cashiering, patient affairs, and aspects of credit control
- Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by analysing and entering charges from consolidated invoices
- Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by entering accrual and prepayment adjustments
Essential criteria
- Computer literate with experience of using Microsoft Office
- GCSEs at Grade C or above in both English language and Mathematics (or equivalent qualification)
- Studying for a relevant accounting qualification (for example AAT/ACCA/CIMA)
- Experience of working in a busy finance department
- Experience of resolving invoice issues with debtors and suppliers/creditors
- Familiar with using Excel functions e.g. pivot tables
- Previous knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
- Basic accounting skills
Desirable criteria
- Studying for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)
- Experience using oracle business intelligence
- Experience using oracle financials
- Experience of processing high volume transactions
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Finance Assistant
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Finance Team for an individual to provide comprehensive and professional accounting support within the Trust's Financial Services Department. The department is responsible for overseeing routine transactional processes and maintaining robust financial controls across the Trust's main exchequer accounts and Charitable Fund.
The successful post holder will support the effective management of financial activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and adherence to established financial procedures..
Main duties of the job
This will include the following activities under supervision:
Reconciliation of control accounts
Raising of sales ledger invoices in accordance with a regular billing schedule as well as on an ad-hoc basis.
Provide assistance for distributing invoices and getting them approved on the payables ledger promptly
Support to the Trust's Treasury management activities, including cashiering, patient affairs, and aspects of credit control
Support the department by obtaining backup for all relevant to areas of the department's operation and ensuring it is filed appropriately and promptly
Support the monthly performance management (budgetary) reporting cycle by analysing and entering char
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