Band 7 Senior Management Accountant - Bath

Band 7 Senior Management Accountant - Bath

Recruiter: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Job overview
If you believe in putting patients first and supporting the delivery of sustainable mental health services, then we want to hear from you. We make it our priority to give the best possible care in the right place at the right time to help our users recover and live their best life. You can help us achieve this by joining a collaborative, hardworking and inclusive finance team who encourage development and high standards. We are currently looking for a UK qualified accountant to work as a Senior Management Accountant for the corporate directorates.

Main duties of the job
You will work closely with senior managers and directors within the corporate directorates, providing financial analysis, support, advice, and challenge to help them deliver a financially sustainable service. You will also ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts and forecasts for the corporate directorates within the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role will help budget holders to deliver a financially sustainable service, by providing financial analysis, support, advice, and challenge as necessary. The role includes the management of other staff within the Finance department. The role will also ensure budget holders are trained to understand their financial position and support the budget holders with strategic financial queries. This role will support the Deputy Director of Finance and Head of Financial Management & Costing by providing relevant analysis of data to support contract negotiations and other work. This role fits within a busy finance department and will include other Trust wide and ad hoc tasks appropriate to the grade.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• CCAB Qualified

Experience
Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience of financial procedures and reporting requirements in the NHS or other Public Sector.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience in developing the management accounting function in a Public Sector organisation.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience at budget setting, reporting and forecasting including use of financial modelling.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of a management accounting role in an NHS Trust

Communication skills
Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to write technical reports in a clear and concise manner

Skills
Essential criteria

• Thoroughly proficient in using Excel to develop models and analysis
• Ability to explain complex professional technical matters clearly to colleagues and non-finance managers

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities. We are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours.

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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.