Finance Assistant - Band 4
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This Finance Assistant role supports the financial services function within NHS Essex Integrated Care Board. The team ensures the integrity of the ledger, reporting, and annual accounts close down, playing a crucial role in the organisation's ambitions. Responsibilities include managing accounts payable and receivables, processing journals, and interpreting technical guidance. The position involves working closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective financial management and reporting.
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and excellent keyboarding skills
- Diploma level qualification or equivalent level of experience in relevant role
- Workings towards Accounting Technician qualification or evidence continued professional development in finance.
- Personal Attributes and Values
- Experience supporting delivery of projects that require collective decision-making
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
- Experience managing complex and often confidential information, including supporting responses to media and political inquiries
- Experience of supporting development and delivery of projects
- Uses technology to effectively plan work and evaluate effectiveness through audits.
- Governance and Assurance
- Experience supporting delivery of projects that require collective decision-making and how to negotiate success in those situations.
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
- Partnership and Communities
- Experience working across teams and organisations in the development and delivery of projects.
- Able to effective influencing and challenge within areas of responsibility, escalating appropriately where necessary
- People and Culture
- Acts as a positive, compassionate and inclusive team member, demonstrating commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, organisation learning and achieving positive outcomes for all staff, patients, service users and carers working in line with the NHS People Promise.
- Strategy and Analysis
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and excellent keyboarding skills
- Diploma level qualification or equivalent level of experience in relevant role
- Workings towards Accounting Technician qualification or evidence continued professional development in finance.
- Personal Attributes and Values
- Experience supporting delivery of projects that require collective decision-making
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
- Experience managing complex and often confidential information, including supporting responses to media and political inquiries
- Experience of supporting development and delivery of projects
- Uses technology to effectively plan work and evaluate effectiveness through audits.
- Governance and Assurance
- Experience supporting delivery of projects that require collective decision-making and how to negotiate success in those situations.
- A good understanding effective corporate governance and the route for decision making within the ICB
- Partnership and Communities
- Experience working across teams and organisations in the development and delivery of projects.
- Able to effective influencing and challenge within areas of responsibility, escalating appropriately where necessary
- People and Culture
- Acts as a positive, compassionate and inclusive team member, demonstrating commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, organisation learning and achieving positive outcomes for all staff, patients, service users and carers working in line with the NHS People Promise.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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NHS Essex Integrated Care Board
Finance Assistant - Band 4
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a Finance Assistant who will support the delivery of the financial services function within the ICB.
The team ensures the integrity of the ledger, reporting and annual accounts close down. This team is crucial to everything the wider team delivers and has a key role to play in ensuring the organisation realises its ambitions.
The team is responsible for managing the overall accounts payable and receivables function for the ICB. This includes managing invoice workflows, raising debtors invoices, dealing with internal and external queries, supplier setups, processing journals, analysing and preparing internal reports.
The team is also key to interpreting technical guidance and works as a conduit across the finance and commercial directorate, as well as with external partners where required.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include:
Ensuring the ledger supports the appropriate functioning and delegation in respect of the SFIs and Standing Orders.
Supporting analysis required for statutory accounts completion and month end requirements.
Assisting Coders/Approvers in the resolution of queries relating to invoices.
Advising suppliers to communicate directly with SBS in the first instance with regard to invoice settlement queri
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