Financial & Systems Accountant

Financial & Systems Accountant

Job Reference: 396-2781083-SHOJ

Employer: Department: Finance Location: Kingston Hospital, Kingston upon Thames Salary: £36,070 - £42,712 pa. inclusive of HCAS (15%)

First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country - close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare.

The South West London Collaborative Bank

Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!

Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits

The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance
-Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 - Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year.
-HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

- Caring - Design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.
- Safe - Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible - All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other - Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

One year fixed term contract

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an acute general hospital serving South West London and Surrey, providing a range of high quality services to a local population of 350,000. The Trust requires a highly motivated, reliable and flexible Financial and Systems Accountant to work as a key member of the Finance Department.

The post holder will have excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise their own workload, whilst working as part of a busy team. They should have experience of managing computerised financial ledger systems, preferably Integra 2, and will have strong IT skills including Excel and other Microsoft Office products. Responsible for maintaining and developing the Trust's financial systems, they will play a key role in month and year end ledger closedown, ensuring procedures and controls are effective and for reporting. Experience of working in a financial environment is essential, as are excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to deal with people at all levels in a friendly and helpful manner. Progress towards an accounting qualification will be required and previous NHS experience advantageous.

• Application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects this, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
• References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form.
• Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
• Shortlisting : You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account/mobile regularly.
• DBS : Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if the appointee to this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, he/she will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Salary : Applicants without prior NHS experience at the same Pay Band or higher, your salary will start at the lower value within the advertised range and increase every year up to the maximum value within the banding (subject to review meetings).
• NHS Jobs : Completed applications will be transferred to our preferred third party recruitment management system. All communications will be via trac.jobs, unfortunately, you will not receive responses to queries sent via NHS Jobs.

Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the current Resident Labour Market Test which will be in place until the end of December 2020. UK Visas and Immigration requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the

From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

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