Treasury Officer (Sponsorship Available) At Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Employer: Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Job Title: Treasury Officer
Location: Leicester, United Kingdom
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 28 September 2026

Job Summary

Working as part of a Treasury Team and reporting to the Treasury Manager to ensure all work associated with the Trust and subsidiaries (the Group) Annual Accounts are completed within the defined timetable.

This will involve working with the Group’s External Auditor to ensure that all information is correct and that the Group not only fulfills its financial duties but achieves an unqualified audit reports.

Dependent on the needs of the business the Treasury duties could be carried out in the Treasury Office at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Women’s Hospital or remotely from home.

A key rotational role will be to ensure the Cashiers Offices are fully manned and operational within the opening hours determined by the Chief Financial Officer.

There is a Cashiers Office located in both the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Dependent on the needs of the business cover needs to be given to both sites.

The Cashier role involves Customer Service to patients, staff and liaising with Cash carriers.

Work with the Trust’s Internal Auditors when the Treasury Department is audited, sharing processes and procedures. This will require implementing any proposed recommendations within agreed timescales.

Main Duties of the Job

• Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies. There are both balance sheet reconciliations and salary deduction reconciliations requiring different processes.
• Analyses financial data to identify errors and rectifies problems from a range of options. This could be errors identified on Petty Cash reconciliations that have been incorrectly receipted to the Finance Ledger that need correcting or payroll entries being posted to wrong control accounts.
• Various salary deduction schemes require complex calculations about payments and decisions whether and how to pursue over/underpayments on these Schemes need to be made e.g. Travel cards, childcare, salary sacrifice.

About Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward the commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for women, children and families.

Uniting the hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust believes in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourages applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job Description

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust receives a large number of applications for its roles and when that happens the closing date is sometimes brought forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification – Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE Math & English Grade C or above.
• AAT Technician or equivalent experience and theoretical knowledge.

Person Specification – Knowledge & Nature of Experience

Essential

• Experience in Cash Handling.
• Detailed understanding of accounting procedures such as reconciliations, coding structures, procedures.
• A practical working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and experience using a computerised general ledger.

Desirable

• Experience of working in an NHS Finance environment with a Shared Service Provider.

Person Specification – Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and discrepancies.
• Analyses financial data to identify errors and sorts out problems from a range of options.
• Carries out complex calculations about payments and decides whether and how to pursue over/underpayments.

Person Specification – Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Liaise with Treasury Manager to ensure Cashier office is manned during opening times.
• Detailed understanding of accounting procedures to Technician Level.

Person Specification – Personal Skills / Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• The ability to work under minimal supervision and direction.
• Neat and precise methods of working, including the maintenance of complete and accurate filing and record systems, both manual and computerised.
• The ability to use initiative in fulfilling and completing tasks.
• Excellent time management skills to manage workload within time frames.
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role.
• Ability to resolve difficult situations under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, 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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

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