The purpose of the Senior Management Accountant role is to support Divisions and clinical Services to deliver high quality, timely, efficient and sustainable services. This will be achieved by providing support to the Divisional Finance Manager (DFM), by providing accurate financial information and advice, by helping to ensure that services deliver within its available resources and ensuring that financial risk is appropriately managed. The role at times requires a significant degree of financial challenge to be applied to Divisional performance and decisions with full consideration of the financial impact across the Trust as a whole. The Senior Management Accountant will: Add value to Divisional decision making and knowledge by triangulating information (e.g. across financial, activity and workforce). Support the DFM in the financial assessment of Divisional business cases and cost improvement programmes (CIPs). Provide a business development and income generation function in terms of proactively identifying opportunities with respective departments and functions. Be the key point of contact for clinical services in ensuring compliance with financial governance requirements, best practice and guidance. As a senior member of the Finance Team the Senior Management Accountant will provide leadership and guidance to the wider finance department and support the Chief Finance Officer, the Finance Director, Trust Leadership Team, Executive and Board in promoting excellence and in delivering Trust objectives, in particular the delivery of sustainable financial health and the development of staff. Within the Department the Senior Management Accountant will maintain a close working relationships to enable this responsibility to be carried out.