Senior Management AccountantNHS

Job summary

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit into the role of Senior Management Accountant. This is a key role supporting the Estates Services and within the broader finance team and operates within the financial management team supporting the functioning and delivery of high quality financial information and reporting.

This role will be working within the Corporate and Estates Divisional Finance Management Team with the primary aim of preparing monthly management accounts for their designated areas within Estates Services, in addition to engaging with operational team members to discuss budgets, establishments and ongoing developments across the service. Further duties and responsibilities are listed below.

Hybrid working is currently available for this role, once initial induction is completed.

This is a 12 months fixed term post.

Please note, interviews for this post will take place on 29th September in person.

Main duties of the job

Preparation of expenditure, income, payroll and budget journals, ensuring that all information is processed in accordance with procedures and accounting standards.

Identify, analyse, investigate and work with service leads to resolve variances.

Produce year end forecasts and update regularly in discussion with budget manager and be able to explain movements in forecasted positions.

Assist the relevant services in the overall reconciliation of the Trust`s income and expenditure position on a monthly basis.

Undertake costing exercises, including skill mix changes, maternity calculations.

Provide financial support to services (including budget manager meetings), ensuring that all queries are investigated and either resolved or referred to the appropriate person.

Produce finance reports where required in line with the agreed timetable.

Provide support to finance and operational colleagues with costing allocations and benchmarking data as required within agreed timetable.

Provide support with service line reporting and divisional allocations.

Responsible for production of robust working papers for audit when required.

Develop productive ongoing relationships with relevant budget manager, finance colleagues and other internal and external stakeholders. Be able to efficiently resolve issues using negotiation and persuasive skills to achieve required results.

Deliver finance training to non-finance staff.

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence