Senior Management Accountant

Job overview Fixed Term / Secondment Cover - 12 months

Would you like to join our Finance team and become part of one of the largest non-acute Foundation Trusts in the country? CNWL provides mental health services across London . The finance department offers a range of opportunities to partner and advise these services as they meet their operational challenges.

We are looking to appoint a self-motivated accountant (either qualified or part-qualified with a CCAB body) to fill a Senior Management Accountant vacancy within the finance department. You will provide business partnering support to your clinical directorates whilst ensuring accurate reporting of their financial position. You will need to work within tight deadlines, work under pressure and possess a real drive to succeed as well as strong interpersonal skills.

CNWL’s finance department offers a diverse and friendly environment for professional development. We are a large team with many opportunities to progress your career, and have set ourselves the target of finding a mentor for every team-member who wants one. Our staff are based across various sites and we welcome flexible working. We also have the benefit of being an accredited employer for ACCA, CIPFA and CIMA.

For accountancy students we offer a generous package of study support and leave.

To provide Management Accounting support to services.

You will be making a significant contribution to supporting these services in outer London, whilst benefiting from being part of a strong team that is passionate about supporting and developing your talents to make the most of your career.

• To provide monthly statements and other relevant financial information to Trust Divisions and service lines, according to agreed timetables, together with appropriate interpretation and advice
• To monitor, on an ongoing basis, financial performance against agreed delegated budgets, incorporating the latest information available to allow services to operate within their resources
• To investigate and report significant budgetary variances and costs to both the Finance Manager and budget holder, discussing the necessary remedial action as appropriate and keeping logs of agreed actions to monitor their implementation.
• To develop and maintain an integrated financial performance report, including a year end forecast, highlighting key variances and trends in activity and finance, commenting on influencing factors and advising on any necessary management action.
• To develop sensitivity analysis techniques using analytical tools in the presentation of annual forecasts of operational income and expenditure.
• To meet regularly with Borough/Service Directors, Senior Managers and budget holders to assess financial performance and to provide financial management information, analysis and advice keeping a record of these meetings and actions, and ensuring that these actions are followed up and concluded.
• To recognise and provide financial management support to Directors, Senior Managers and budget holders on identified key risks and critical success factors in achieving financial targets.
• To ensure budget holders and managers have an awareness of financial performance requirements, including the need for budgetary control and adherence to SFIs, and to provide training where necessary.
• To contribute to the annual budget setting/financial planning process as follows:
• to supervise the calculation of the annual budgets for a range of cost centres in accordance with agreed principles and timetables
• to work with budget holders and managers to identify cost pressures, service developments and cost improvements;
• to support the Finance Manager in the production of Directorate financial plans

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

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