Job overview
To assist the business accountant in providing a comprehensive range of financial management support to a number of budget holders, including accurate financial position and forecast, with variances understood and explained.
The post holder will provide high quality, accurate and meaningful reports portraying all key messages and accurate and timely financial information provided to support decision making.
To ensure optimum use of available resources. Robust budgets set to meet trust and division plans. Robust costings provided which ensure costs sufficient to meet service delivery requirements, all aspects considered, and risks mitigated. The post holder will produce robust quality impact assessed CIP plans and ensure that CIP plans and transformational change programmes are delivered.
The post holder will ensure a productive and positive working relationship with customers and a customer focused financial management service.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the budget setting process annually for the dedicated areas of responsibility, within the budget setting timetable.
To work with and advise budget holders in identifying areas of efficiencies and monitoring and reporting on the performance against CIP targets.
To be responsible for providing routine financial information that is relevant, accurate and within agreed timetables to enable performance monitoring by directors and budget holders.
To contribute to the monthly financial analysis provision within the reporting timetables to facilitate the production of the financial board papers.
To assist in interpreting financial information, providing forecasts, comparisons and questioning budget holders to ensure budgets are used efficiently and effectively.
To develop financial awareness of non-financial managers and provide support and training both to individuals and groups.
To agree internal SLA drivers with budget holders and ensure that mechanisms are in place to implement this initiative.
To introduce, review and update systems for managing the financial practices within the Division in line with Trust policy.
To contribute to the strategy by advising on financial performance supporting the development of existing and future services including ensuring all service developments are accurately costed using the trusts costing methodology and affordable before implementation.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description and Person Specification attached which details all the main responsibilities for the role advertised.
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* The post holder is required to be at CCAB Diploma level or with equivalent experience
* At least 3 years' experience of management accounting at a senior level
* At least 2 years' experience of managing and developing staff
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a Mental Health Trust
* Five years senior management experience
* Dealing with auditors.
* CCAB Qualified
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of NHS Trust finance regime.
* Computer literate with knowledge of various software packages, including Microsoft Office
* Experience of working effectively and constructively with a range of staff across all levels and disciplines
* Experience of working under pressure and meeting deadlines.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of NHS SBS general ledger and business intelligence reporting tool
Skills
Essential criteria
* Understands the bigger picture.
* Well developed analytical skills
* Excellent communication skills.
* Negotiating skills
* Ability to manage own time
* Ability to work as part of a team.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
* Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 164.5KB)
* OH Risk ID (PDF, 170.5KB)
* A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
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