Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustAn opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Management Accountant, acting as the Financial Management lead for one of the Trust's clinical divisions and playing a key role in managing and reporting its financial position.The post holder will provide expert financial advice to operational colleagues and lead their staff in providing an effective financial management and reporting service.The successful candidate will be a fully qualified CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with significant financial management experience in a large organisation.
They will have experience of managing and developing staff and will have demonstrated the ability to build effective working relationships and deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.Main duties of the jobThe Senior Management Accountant's main duties will be to:Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management across their divisionInfluence investment decisions and priorities for the division, including providing financial input into business cases and informing management decisionsSupport operational teams with addressing budget variances and delivering challenging efficiency targetsLead the month end process for their area of responsibility, ensuring timely and accurate reportingCo-ordinate the budget setting and forecasting processesManage and develop Management Accountants and other support staffJob responsibilitiesKEY DUTIESTo establish and maintain strong working relationships with both key internal and external individuals to ensure effective working.
The post holder will be expected to provide advice to the Assistant Director of Operations, Directorate leads and Clinical Leads over financial issues of all aspects of service provision of the Care Group/ Corporate Function.To influence investment decisions and priorities of several departments within the Division.To develop and evaluate formal business case proposals from the Division including presenting financial information to the senior management team.Support the commissioning process of any service provision to external organisation including costing of such proposed service.Ensure all aspects of the Trusts financial policies are adhered to; value-for-money secured and financial stability achieved.Contribute to the accuracy and production of the corporate financial reporting including statutory returns, final accounts and Reference Costs submission.Co-ordinate the annual Budget Setting process, ensuring that departmental budgets are developed to take account service pressures in accordance with constraints of funding.Ensure financial reports to the Division are developed and amended to meet the evolving information requirements.To monitor the financial performance (both income and expenditure) of the Divisions, identifying and reporting variances.To assist the Head of Financial Management with the completion of the Trusts financial plan and its subsequent monitoring throughout the year.Person SpecificationQualificationsFully Qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant or equivalent qualificationKnowledge & ExperienceSignificant recent financial management experience within a large organisation with post qualification financial management experienceExperience of managing and supervising staff within a Finance department.Strong working knowledge of all aspects of management accounting.Strong IT skills, experience using Microsoft Office suite (Excel and Word).Skills & AbilitiesExcellent oral and written communication skills.Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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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