Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £29970.00 to £36483.00
Date posted: 18th November 2024
Closing date: 1st December 2024
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Job Description:
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and flexible professional to join our finance team as an Assistant Management Accountant working within the Management Accounts function.
As an Assistant Management Accountant within the Management Accounts function, you will assist the Management Accountants and Senior Management Accountants with preparing month-end and year-end accounts, annual budgets, and providing support to budget holders and business cases as required.
Main duties of the job
You will have demonstrable financial experience across a wide range of areas, including management and financial accounting, and be able to confidently apply the principles of double-entry bookkeeping. You need to be comfortable handling and manipulating large datasets accurately and often simultaneously, and ideally, your experience will have been gained in a large multi-faceted organisation.
The role is busy and you will often be required to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, so we expect you will be self-motivated and able to work independently, as well as part of a team.
If you are an energetic team player and feel you have the skills and values to join our friendly, outward-looking, proactive and award-winning team, we look forward to hearing from you.
About us
Devon Partnership Trust is one of the UK's most progressive mental health and learning disability trusts, providing services across Devon and Bristol.
Working as part of the Trust, you will make a difference to people's lives from the moment you start.
Job responsibilities
1. To support the finance team and operational managers in the provision of data requests, reconciliations and reports in a timely manner, ensuring financial information is processed in accordance with procedures and in order to provide information for statutory returns.
2. Assist with the maintenance, input, updating and reconciliation of computerised budgetary control systems. This involves developing spreadsheets and databases for specific purposes and undertaking enquiries on several financial based systems.
3. To deputise for finance colleagues at meetings when required.
4. Assist in all aspects of supplying financial information to key stakeholders including non-financial staff when requested.
5. Meet with relevant stakeholders on an ongoing basis advising on the current financial position. This may involve travel between different sites.
6. Working as a finance team, adopting a task-based approach to workload, which will be coordinated by Senior Accountants and Accountants.
7. To ensure every process has an accurate procedure note that can be interpreted by both finance and non-finance colleagues.
8. To provide guidance and interpretation of the Trust's Financial Procedures, Scheme of Delegation, Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions where necessary.
9. Manage own time and workload in accordance with monthly/annual and ad-hoc timetables, ensuring all deadlines are met on a timely basis.
10. To deliver informal training to work colleagues and non-finance staff on a range of subjects related to own area and a range of general procedures.
11. Contribute to the effectiveness of accounting systems, processes and procedures and make recommendations to reduce costs and enhance value.
12. Undertake other duties as agreed with the Accountants, Senior Accountants, Assistant Director of Finance.
13. Line management of Finance Assistants (Bands 2, 3 or 4) where relevant.
14. To attend and contribute to both the wider finance team developments such as attendance of away days, the annual Budget Holders Conference etc.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent)
* AAT Qualified or equivalent accounting experience
Knowledge
* Knowledge of NHS finance
* Knowledge of ledger systems/accounting strategy and budgetary control processes
Experience
* Accounting experience three years
* IT literate including extensive use of Word and Excel
* Good communication skills both verbal and written
* Ability to explain finance information to non-finance managers
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Good analytical skills
* Ability to interpret financial information
* Logical approach to problem solving
Planning and Organising skills
* Manage own workload within agreed parameters and deadlines
Other
* Regular reliable method of transport and mobility throughout the area
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