Bee(n) count
We need a new finance bee to join our fantastic finance team. This is a wide and varied role spanning a range of tasks and with excellent career progression.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Accurate processing of invoices
- Preparation of payment runs
- Maintenance of expenses
- Petty cash management
- Maintenance of fixed assets register
- Credit control
- Other adhoc duties
We take people development very seriously and you will be developed and mentored through your progression with us. You will get valuable on the job training as well as full study support for the CIMA qualification.
No previous finance experience is necessary; all you do need is at least two B’s at A-Level, a 2.1 in your degree, great organisation and communication skills and above all, loads of enthusiasm.
If you think you want to count beans for Hive please email a copy of your CV with a covering letter to finance@hivehealth.com by 16 July 2010.

A big event at Ian’s hit the agency hard this weekend as we all descended to the green and pleasant land of Wyck in Hampshire for a Saturday night party.
Post the PM digital awards last night what I really needed was a dark warm room, a duvet and to be entertained. Fortunately part of this was possible, unfortunately only after having to go to Brighton to hunt down insights into Nurses/virology/technology for 9am. The skedaddle back to Town for 3pm proved all a bit of a blur.
Apparently when the Romans used the term Genius they referred to a disembodied thing that lived in the walls of an artists studio. The artist was a channel for this being and when their creativity bombed it took the heat, when they soared they were kept in their place by the assumption that they were part of this process but not the foundation for it.
A report today by the BBC confirms what many of us have been expecting. The NHS has a big problem looming. Now I’m not an economist and my understanding of the financial levers required to prop up the economy in a downturn are pretty non existent, but I do understand what has happened before. Recessions hit tax revenues (less people working) and so the Government has less to spend. Even if we ignore all the other stuff like quantitative easing and budget deficits the simple fact remains, money is tight, and its going to get tighter. Add to this an ageing population, the threat of pandemic viruses and a grossly over-administered system the impact on the health service has no choice that to be considerable. Inevitably the spectre of large scale cost cutting, drug tariff pressure and even new drug prescription caps become the norm. There is no doubt in my mind that our industry and our clients business are in for difficult years as soon as the election is called. The policy maker the BBC interviewed called it 7





