Management Accountant & Team Lead – Hybrid

Due to vacancies within the Department, we have an excellent opportunity for two full-time highly motivated, enthusiastic and flexible professionals to join our finance team as Management Accountants, working within the Central Management Accounts team.

The roles offer hybrid working as well as potential flexible working arrangements.

The main duties of the job can be found within the Job Description. A brief summary is included below:

• To line manage, support, develop and performance manage the central management accounts team to ensure the delivery of an effective and efficient budget management and support service across the Trust.
• To work together with Operation Managers and Senior Management Accountants across the Trust to ensure supply of financial information meets the needs of Directorates and is accurate, timely and relevant.
• To ensure financial information is processed in accordance with procedures, investigate highly complex enquiries providing assistance and advice as required and contribute to corporate reporting, providing strategic, business planning advice.
• To prepare and complete statutory, NHS accounts, and returns, ensuring work is completed in line with financial timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
• To review financial systems, processes and procedures across the management accounts team and implement agreed recommendations to continuously improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of the support service.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.

• CCAB/CIMA Qualified (or equivalent) / 5 years as an Accountant

• Ability to communicate with and relate to a wide range of people throughout the organisation
• Strong management and leadership skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team

• Experience of line and performance management of staff
• Experience of working for at least three years in an accountancy role including at least two years in a staff management role.
• Experience of working in a healthcare setting

• Detailed knowledge of computerised accounting systems and advanced knowledge of Excel or similar
• Specialist knowledge of, and ability to apply and advise others of professional accounting standards
• Knowledge of and ability to apply and advise others of Trust/NHS financial and other regulations and procedures