Project Accountant

We are looking for an enthusiastic Project Accountant to join us on a fixed term contract until July 2025!

Due to an exciting period of business growth, we are looking for a talented Project Accountant who will support the financial workstream of the safe transfer of services for a go-live on 1 April 2025.

You will report to the Senior Finance Business Partner to assist in the successful delivery of financial and commercial aspects of our new Bath and North Somerset, Wiltshire & Swindon (BSW) contract which provides adult and children’s community health care services to the population of BSW.

This full-time role offers a hybrid working model, with a mix of homeworking and working at St Martin's Hospital, Bath. This role requires a driving license and access to a car for work purposes.

Package Description: As a Project Accountant, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group. You will feel valued as a Project Accountant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

1. Salary of £40,000.00 - £45,000 plus Group Pension
2. Free tea and coffee at your base location
3. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
4. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
5. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
6. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
7. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
8. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities: As Project Accountant you will:

1. Record, forecast and report mobilization costs
2. Provide support to Due Diligence process, including analysis, interpretation and reporting of information
3. Identify and mitigate financial risks
4. Support the build of cost-centre structures and report and approve hierarchy
5. Lead on budget build taking account of findings from due diligence
6. Support processes for cutover e.g. asset transfer, suppliers, customers, property, treasury
7. Support with costings for sub-contracts and service level agreements – revenue and expenditure
8. Support with implementing key control processes and training of systems e.g. Proactis, our ordering platform

The Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate for this role will:

1. Be minimum AAT qualified with extensive experience in a similar role
2. Experience of projects
3. Advanced Microsoft Excel user
4. Fully IT literate, able to adopt new systems with ease
5. Driving license and access to a car
6. Positive attitude and ability to work in a team
7. Ability to prioritize and work under pressure of tight deadlines
8. NHS/Care sector experience

For a full list of requirements, please see the attached job description.

About The Company: We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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