enior Graduate Finance Trainee (Sponsorship Available) at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Employer: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Job Title: Senior Graduate Finance Trainee
Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 11 March 2026

Job Summary

This role is a senior training post within the finance department based in Financial Management.

The trainee will be working towards achieving a CCAB or equivalent qualification. Support will be provided to continue this work, including financial assistance, time off for study and access to a mentor within the department.

The postholder will receive a wide variety of experience, to support them to apply for roles with an NHS Trust on completion of the training scheme.

Please note: the advert may close early if a high volume of applications is received.

Main Duties of the Job

On a day to day basis the post holder will:

• Ensure financial information is processed in accordance with Trust procedures and in order to provide information for statutory returns, through both the completion of own work and through the coordination of the work of others.

• Implement policies and propose changes to practices, procedures for own area.

• Investigate complex and sensitive financial enquiries, providing external assistance and advice to senior Trust management and clinical staff as required.

Job Responsibilities

The principle duty of the role will be to assist the Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner and Chief Management Accountant in the provision of an expert management accounting service. During this role the trainee will acquire a broad range of practical management accounting experience.

Regular tasks and duties include:

• Monitoring budgets or financial initiatives and developing or creating report to undertake this work

• Using theoretical knowledge to ensure monthly accruals and prepayments are posted and accurate supporting documentation is maintained for these journals

• Provide and receive complex or sensitive information from a variety of sources in order to produce variance analysis reports for budget holders and senior managers.

• Supporting the Chief Management Accountant in the production of the Finance Report to the Board, including extracting and reviewing data from the Financial system.

• Responding to queries from Budget Holders

• Monitor and support non-finance users interaction with the Finance systems

• Assisting in the preparation of business plans incorporating trend and risk analysis providing support to the decision making process across complex ranges of options

• Assisting in the production of a monthly forecast of income and expenditure

About London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The strategy 2023-2028 outlines how London Ambulance Service NHS Trust plans to achieve its objectives, centred upon three missions:

• Care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.

• Organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.

• London – using the unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.

To achieve these three missions, 50 commitments have been set to deliver over the next five years. These commitments were developed through engagement across the organisation, with partners and patients, alongside analysis of population trends and future planning.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Accreditations, Education

Essential

• Education to degree level or equivalent

• Evidence of continuing personal development

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with large data sets and manipulating data

• Experience of working with and alongside large diverse teams to achieve complex goals

• Experience of completing large complicated projects with externally set outputs, and evidence of gathering and then applying learning from these projects

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of the full range of MS packages including Word (report formatting, tables etc), Excel (pivot tables, macros look ups etc)

• Numerate with highly developed analytical ability to manipulate and interpret numerical data and other issues

• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing

• Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to work to deadlines under pressure

Additional Information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and 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.

How to Apply

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