Management Accountant

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High;
Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

The Management Accountant is responsible for providing timely and accurate management information to the Trust's budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.

They will work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.

• Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
• Working closely with the Financial Services Team to prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
• Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and to produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
• Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
• Investigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.

Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust are part of the South East London Finance Academy, which is committed to fostering professional development and career growth for all with a particular aim of enhancing opportunities for under‑represented groups and improving the diversity of our finance community.

This means, that as part of our Secondment Pledge, this permanent role is advertised with the flexibility of a potential secondment opportunity for the successful candidate. If you would like to explore this flexibility, please discuss with your current line manager and raise for discussion with the recruiting manager, this will not adversely affect your application in any way. Whilst all secondments will require agreement from both the host and receiving organisations, all organisations within SEL are committed to approaching this conversation positively.

• Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
• Working closely with the Financial Services Team to prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
• Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and to produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
• Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
• Investigating and analysing variances from…