Senior Financial Accounting Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Financial Accounting Officer within the Financial Accounting and Governance team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The successful candidate will support the finance team in managing the Trust's £1.6 billion annual spend, ensuring best value for money and patient care. It requires strong financial experience, IT skills, and the ability to manage competing deadlines. This is a fixed-term position for up to twelve months, covering maternity leave.
Key responsibilities
- Support a first-class Finance team to ensure best possible care to patients and deliver best value for money.
- Work closely with a friendly and supportive team as well as clinical and corporate colleagues.
- Balance and prioritise competing work deadlines.
- Demonstrate good technical competence combined with the ability to communicate effectively.
Essential criteria
- 5 GCSE including Maths and English at Grade C/4 or above and 2 A Levels
- AAT qualified or equivalent demonstrable qualification.
- Sufficient and relevant experience of working in a Financial Accounting/Treasury Management environment.
- Demonstrably good IT skills including Excel Advanced level as regular user.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional credibility with Service Managers and other Directorate colleagues
- Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational and planning skills
- Good written and verbal reasoning communication skills
- Concentration skills to undertake complex and involved analysis
- Interpersonal skills to communicate with external bodies.
- Evidence of current CPD
Desirable criteria
- Honours Degree
- European Computer Driving Licence (or equivalent)
- Experience of working in NHS Finance in an Acute Hospital
- Access Database skills
- Experience of Integrated ledger systems
- Negotiation and persuasion skills
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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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Financial Accounting Officer
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is the largest employer in the region and we are committed to providing a great place to work for all our staff across our hospitals and community services. We are a highly vibrant organisation with some of the highest levels of staff retention of any major employer in the country and our staff consistently rate us as a safe and supportive place to work. Treating our staff well is at the heart of who we are as an employer and we provide first class salary packages including above average holiday entitlement and a wide range of flexible benefits.
The successful candidate will be an appropriately qualified and committed individual, with sufficient relevant financial experience, as outlined in the person specification. Spreadsheet skills and experience of electronic financial ledgers, treasury/cash book management, governance arrangements and reporting systems are fundamental to the role. The ability to balance and prioritise competing work deadlines will be critical.
The post requires good technical competence combined with the ability to communicate effectively. In return, the post offers a breadth of financial accounting and governance experience and will be a perfect fit for a self-motivated individu
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