Financial Accountant

                    

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

                        

Job Summary

Salary: Competitive, Depending on Experience

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm. 37.5 hours per week

Location: 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (hybrid working)

Contract: Full-Time & Permanent

What are we looking for?

You will report to the Finance Manager and will be responsible for ensuring best financial practice are followed and monthly reporting is completed timely and accurately. The role will require the ability to constantly evaluate and question activities, look for areas of improvement, through automation and cost saving initiatives.

Key elements of the role are:

• To partner with a variety of departments across the hospital, helping with their accounting needs and developing best practice processes to aid them in their work

• Act as a Finance business partner and work closely with particular departments to create a real and active partnership with both operations and management. Your role will be to add value that will assist in decision making and drive efficiencies across the business

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

What will your duties include?

• Responsible for building and maintaining strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders on all financial matters

• Ensures best financial practices are followed and all financial reports are accurate and relevant

• Develops an understanding of how all departments operate and to identify where finance can help add value to their work function

• Involvement in month-end process and preparation of month-end accruals /journals to ensure accurate close of period

• Month-end balance sheet reconciliations such as prepayments

• Preparation of VAT return

• Analyses and interprets month-end results and highlight key variances to budget, through Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that are critical to the business

• Partners and collaborates with key stakeholders throughout the enterprise to help streamline and improve efficiencies

• Helps develop strategic plans for the managing risks and action plans where necessary.

• Other duties as assigned

What we need from you?

• Newly part-qualified/qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA accountancy qualification is highly desirable or trainee accountant sitting their final exams (essential)

• Relevant accounting and business partnering experience (essential)

• Previous experience within a healthcare environment (highly desirable)

• Experience with working under FRS 102 (UK GAAP) and partial exemption VAT regime (desirable)

• Knowledge of Oracle products (desirable)

• Strong experience with all Microsoft office suites and comfortable with complex excel functions (desirable)

• Prior knowledge of partial VAT exemption scheme (desirable)

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%

• Private Medical & Dental Insurance

• Life Assurance

• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

• Workplace Nursery Scheme

• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support

• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed

• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

  

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org.

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Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy  at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.