Senior Management Accountant

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000

Job description

Recruiter Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Company Description

Our vision for Single Corporate Services
Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.

This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division.

Why are we changing the way we deliver Corporate Services?
Working as a partnership, both IWT and PHU have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The creation of a single corporate service is essential for us to support our clinical and operational services, and our wider transformation programme.

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in-person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Job Description

Band 8A: £53,755 - £60,504

Full time hours: 37.5

Fixed term contract - 12 months

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Management Accountant to join our dynamic Finance Team here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

This role will be instrumental in supporting the development & delivery of the financial reporting provision for the Trust, along with support for costing, planning, forecasting and various sources of income data across the acute sites.

You will be responsible for helping to ensure that financial reporting is aligned to the latest available guidance, and provide administrative support during the development of financial improvement schemes and business cases.

The ability to analyse and manage financial and business operations is fundamental in supporting the success of the values and strategic objectives of the Trust. As a Senior Management Accountant, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of financial information services to a significant part of the Trust's business, ensuring that divisional teams have the information that they require to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate services to our patients. In addition, the Senior Management Accountant will help to ensure that high quality analysis is available to support the delivery of key performance targets, supporting the finance and corporate functions with many of their reporting needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide financial analysis of the Division's clinical and non-clinical activities
• To oversee the preparation and delivery of the monthly management accounts for the Division, working with the Divisional Finance Manager on the monthly reporting, trend and variance analysis.
• Support the Divisional Finance Manager in developing scenario appraisals within Business Cases for new services or investments
• To support the Division's Cost Improvement Plan (CIP), including costing, tracking and transacting CIP Schemes.
• Working collaboratively with Care Group and Service managers to effectively forecast, highlight risks and opportunities.
• Playing a key role in annual budget setting and supporting divisional teams prepare their annual business plans.

Qualifications

Essential

CCAB Qualification and current professional registration or a finalist working towards achieving this goal.

Desirable

• Current / recent knowledge and understanding of the NHS financial environment.

Experience

Essential

• Budgeting, forecasting, business planning
• Development and benefits realisation of CIPs (cost improvement programmes)
• Experience in business case, option appraisal or project management
• Substantial experience at Senior Financial Management Level

Desirable

• Ability to make use of systems (e.g., Excel, Word) to prepare and present accurate, clear information and reports.
• Experience of working within an NHS management accounts team.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to identify problems and causes, secure relevant information from a variety of sources and provide sound solutions to problems
• Commercial awareness and insight of the wider economic environment that impacts on the NHS
• Detailed knowledge of the NHS Trust Financial regime
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• IT skills including intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Systems and advanced understanding of Excel for analysis and planning
• Negotiation and influencing skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS Trust Finance and NHS structural relationships.
• Be able to undertake independent learning in relation to relevant policy changes, reports and best practice to enhance own performance in the role.
• Work at a very detailed level whilst maintaining an overview of the wider agenda.
• Detailed knowledge of relevant technical accounting requirements (e.g. lease assessment under IFRS)

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran's status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.