Finance Officer - Pontypridd

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join the Finance Department on a full time basis.

You will join a key section of the Finance Team, which is responsible for the provision of financial support across the Care Groups.

Your focus will be on supporting the Finance Team in producing high quality financial information and providing supporting analysis and advice to ensure sound financial management within the University Health Board.

The Finance Department has a strong Staff Development Programme, which provides opportunities to develop your career within the Health Board.

The working week will follow a hybrid-working model split between home and office working; any face-to-face meetings could be at sites across the Health Board footprint.

Main duties of the job

Assisting in the provision of accurate and timely financial management information to the Health Board and its budget holders

Responsible for processing month end journals to ensure a materially robust financial position is reported – this will include expenditure, income and budget journals

Assist in the timely and accurate production of financial reporting and the monitoring of performance against budget

Maintaining budgeted establishments and support the Divisional Support Accountants by providing ad-hoc costings and financial information

Dealing with ad-hoc queries from the service teams and meeting with budget holders as and when required.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Person specification

Qualifications

• AAT Technician Level or Equivalent

Skills

• Ability to use Microsoft Excel & Microsoft 365 Applications
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Team working & initiative
• Analytical skills

Experience

• Experience in a Finance Department

• Previous NHS experience
• Previous Management Accounts Experience

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.