Costing Analyst / Costing Accountant

Job summary.

i&e Professionals are pleased to be supporting one of our NHS Trust clients who are looking for an Interim Costing Analyst or Costing Accountant to support for 6 months. Income Accountant background is welcomed.

Main duties of the job.

• To develop and maintain an efficient and effective system for the collection, processing and quality assurance of data and information used in costing and profitability reporting.

• Maintain the Trust’s costing model for the internal apportionment of costs and income and provide the information required to support a system of internal trading and recharging.

• Review and compare the trust's Reference Costs with national averages, tariffs and other metrics and investigate and understand material variances in order to support profitability and efficiency reviews across the Trust.

• Assist in the preparation and submission of the trust's Reference Costs and other benchmarking returns.

• Create and maintain apportionment tables for new services / cost centres as per the costing manual and update during the year via the Service Line Reporting process.

• Support the maintenance and update of the Patient Level Information Costing System (PLICS) software model.

• Support the production of monthly integrated Service Line Reports and be the secondary point of contact for clinical divisions and corporate departments.

• Provide budget holders with detailed supplementary analysis and information on direct and non-direct costs explaining clearly the methodology used.