This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team within Finance, which underpins the accuracy and integrity of the accounting ledger and the month end and year end accounts.
As the Assistant Head of the Core Accounting Team, you will be the lead point of contact for the Core Accounting Team.
Main duties of the job
By way of summary, the key responsibilities of this role include:
1. Supporting the Deputy Head of the Core Accounting Team to ensure the integrity of all accounting entries transacted into the accounting ledger.
2. Ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures, managing financial controls, and auditing processes.
3. Supporting the year-end financial processes, which will include liaising with the external auditors.
4. Managing a large team, including the allocation of workloads and balancing competing demands.
5. Working under your own initiative to drive good practice and compliance with financial procedures and policies.
6. Responsible for the Accounts Receivable function and the Feeders processes of processing internal and external feeder files into the accounting ledger in a timely fashion.
7. Maintaining and fostering excellent professional relationships and strong lines of communication with internal departments and external partners.
8. Project managing the process improvement agenda, streamlining areas of work and automating manual tasks to improve accuracy and efficiency.
9. Contributing to the positive culture, governance, and control environment of the team through maintaining high standards of working practices.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* CCAB qualification or studying towards but with experience and expertise to CCAB level.
* Experience at management level with proven professional and managerial experience and expertise.
* Knowledge of integrated financial systems.
* Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
* Knowledge of Oracle System Accounting.
* Knowledge of P2P (Purchase to Pay) System reporting.
Experience
* Experience in process improvement project management.
* Experience of managing a large team.
* Experience of delivering within challenging deadlines.
* Demonstrable track record of career advancement and achievement.
* Experience of managing change and associated behaviours.
* Previous financial experience in the NHS.
* Previous experience of working with substantial data sets.
Other
* Able to work flexible hours around key reporting milestones.
* Able to travel between sites and to All Wales meetings in a timely manner.
* Committed and self-motivated.
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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