Senior Management Accountant

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An opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Management Accountant, acting as the Financial Management lead for one of the Trust’s clinical divisions and playing a key role in managing and reporting its financial position.

The post holder will provide expert financial advice to operational colleagues and lead their staff in providing an effective financial management and reporting service.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with significant financial management experience in a large organisation. They will have experience of managing and developing staff and will have demonstrated the ability to build effective working relationships and deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.

Note:
The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

The Senior Management Accountant’s main duties will be to:

• Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management across their division
• Influence investment decisions and priorities for the division, including providing financial input into business cases and informing management decisions
• Support operational teams with addressing budget variances and delivering challenging efficiency targets
• Lead the month end process for their area of responsibility, ensuring timely and accurate reporting
• Co‑ordinate the budget setting and forecasting processes
• Manage and develop Management Accountants and other support staff

KEY DUTIES

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with both key internal and external individuals to ensure effective working. The post holder will be expected to provide advice to the Assistant Director of Operations, Directorate leads and Clinical Leads over financial issues of all aspects of service provision of the Care Group/ Corporate Function.
• Influence investment decisions and priorities of several departments within the Division. This could entail a wide range of management decisions including changing skill mix structure within department and new initiatives to improve patient care.
• Develop and evaluate formal business case proposals from the Division including presenting financial information to the senior management team. This may include estimating consequential financial and personnel implications on all areas of the Trust.
• Support the commissioning process of any service provision to external organisation including costing of such proposed service.
• Ensure all aspects of the Trust’s financial policies are adhered to; value‑for‑money secured and financial stability achieved. Provide training to non‑finance managers and Clinicians as and when required, ensuring Corporate Governance is adhered to.
• Contribute to the accuracy and production of the corporate financial reporting including statutory returns, final accounts and Reference Costs submission.
• Co‑ordinate the annual Budget Setting process, ensuring that departmental budgets are developed to take account service pressures in accordance with constraints of funding. This consists of planning and organisation of a wide range of departmental budgets, which requires formulation and adjustment of several variables affecting both income and expenditure.
• Ensure financial reports to the Division are developed and amended to meet the evolving information requirements and achieve consistency with corporate reporting to both Finance Committee and Trust Board. Also to ensure these reports are produced timely and accurately in accordance to agreed timetable.
• Demonstrate understanding and fully utilise all relevant forms of technology and information systems in order to ensure accurate interpretation and effective use of resources. Continually review fit for purpose compared to organisational requirements.
• Monitor the financial performance (both income and expenditure) of the…