Employer: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Knowsley Community College
Town: Huyton
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 27/01/2025
Senior Management Accountant
NHS AfC: Band 8a
An opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Management Accountant, acting as the Financial Management lead for one of the Trust’s clinical divisions and playing a key role in managing and reporting its financial position.
The post holder will provide expert financial advice to operational colleagues and lead their staff in providing an effective financial management and reporting service.
The successful candidate will be a fully qualified CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with significant financial management experience in a large organisation. They will have experience of managing and developing staff and will have demonstrated the ability to build effective working relationships and deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Management Accountant’s main duties will be to:
* Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management across their division
* Influence investment decisions and priorities for the division, including providing financial input into business cases and informing management decisions
* Support operational teams with addressing budget variances and delivering challenging efficiency targets
* Lead the month end process for their area of responsibility, ensuring timely and accurate reporting
* Co-ordinate the budget setting and forecasting processes
* Manage and develop Management Accountants and other support staff
Person specification
Qualifications
* Fully Qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant or equivalent qualification
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant recent financial management experience within a large organisation with post qualification financial management experience
* Experience of managing and supervising staff within a Finance department.
* Strong working knowledge of all aspects of management accounting (budgetary and financial planning, variance analysis and financial reporting), end of year statutory accounts requirements and SFI’s.
* Strong IT skills, experience using Microsoft Office suite (Excel and Word), experience of using General Ledger and periphery electronic modules.
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate financial and non-financial information with staff at all levels
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust.
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