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• Financial Accountant - Kearsley
• A specialist business within the healthcare sector

About Our Client

Our client is Europe's largest provider of dental care with almost 600 practices.In just 17 years the business has grown from just 3 practices based in the north west to nearly 600 and is now the biggest dental corporate in the world.The business offers excellent development & progression opportunities, hybrid working and an excellent holiday allowance rising up to 30 days.

Job Description

Financial Accountant duties include:

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  Review and monitor the clinical system financial transactions to ensure correct patient debit and credit balances, providing detailed and accurate analysis to relevant teams for action.
• Oversee the analysis and reporting of debt across the clinical system highlighting discrepancies. along with identification of aged debts and credit control procedures to recover.
• Provide monthly analysis of top ten practice debt ensuring that practice debt reviews are provided to these practices in order to reduce overall debt.
• Provide regular patient debt training to practice staff to ensure that practice can manage practice debt.
• Ensure that the Payment Online Co-ordinators set up and remove clinicians from NHS Compass in a timely manner.
• Month end procedures posting journals, providing summary patient debt and patient in credit reporting to highlight any issues.
• Responsible for line management of two Assistant Financial Accountants, Debt Collection Unit Credit Controllers and the Payment Online Administrators providing support and working to help develop skills and experience.
• Preparation of the monthly and quarterly patient charges creditor reporting highlighting any data discrepancies.
• Monthly reconciliations for NHS monies received against NHS contracts and NHS schedules highlighting any non-payments.
• Provide monthly analysis on fixed discounts given at practice and highlight any unusual activity.
• Assisting with the preparation of the complex monthly balance sheet reconciliation for the payback provision for underperformance to the NHS identifying any potential risk exposure.
• Assisting with the NHS year end reconciliation process.
• Ad-hoc duties such as preparation of information for the external auditors and assistance with some internal audit testing.
• Continually work to improve the quality of the Financial Accounts balance sheet reconciliations, so that balance sheet risks are easily identified.

People

• Effectively manage direct report staff ensuring their responsibilities and work is executed within time frames set.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, internal and external.

Process

• Review monthly debt reporting with direct reports.
• Complete monthly complex balance sheet reconciliations.
• Review of direct report staff balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure all team processes are fully documented including step by step user guides for key procedures.
• Identify and suggest on-going areas of improvement.

The Successful Applicant

The successful Financial Accountant candidate will:

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  Be part qualified with ACA / ACCA / CIMA
• Have a proven track record within a similar role
• Be able to work to tight deadlines
• Be an excellent written and verbal communicator
• Be proficient in MS Excel (Vlookups, pivots)
• Knowledge of balance sheet accounting, preferably from a multi site environment

What's on Offer

A salary up to £40,000, hybrid working, study support, pension, holidays (rising to 30 days with time served) and more.