Band 4 Assistant Management Accountant - Bath NHS House
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 our passionate and friendly finance team.
We currently have a vacancy for a highly motivated, pro-active, part-qualified AAT to work as an Assistant Management Accountant. As a team, we are continuously seeking to improve the quality of financial information provided to our many stakeholders and are looking for a candidate who can help improve our processes. In particular, we need people who can think beyond traditional roles and work with colleagues in other disciplines.
Main Duties of the Job
You will work as part of the Financial Management team to provide financial advice and support to managers and clinicians within the west division, which covers a geographical region of Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. In addition, you will help to prepare month-end accounts, forecasts, and budget setting for the division.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
The main requirements of this role are:
* To assist in the preparation of accurate monthly management accounts, forecasts, and production of annual budgets.
* To work with staff to explain variances between budgeted and actual expenditure and help them to take corrective action.
* To maintain and enhance the customer-oriented approach of the Finance Team through the provision of timely and professional help and advice.
* To investigate financial enquiries, providing assistance and advice as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable Criteria:
* AAT part qualified
Role Experience
Essential Criteria:
* Demonstrates significant, relevant experience of working in a Finance department.
* Demonstrates experience of preparing management accounts.
Desirable Criteria:
* NHS or Social Services experience.
* Experience of working with staff with a non-financial background.
Communication Skills
Essential Criteria:
* Demonstrates strong written communication skills.
* Demonstrates strong verbal communication skills.
* Flexible and supportive team member.
IT Skills
Essential Criteria:
* Experience of using IT in the workplace e.g., Microsoft - word processing, spreadsheets, modern general ledger accounting packages.
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.
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. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Please apply to join us; we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date, and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system 'TRAC'. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us via the TRAC system if you have any queries about your application.
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