Assistant Management Accountant

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic professional to join our Financial Management team.

This role will cover the full suite of financial management responsibilities for a directorate, including undertaking detailed expenditure analysis at a directorate and service line levels as required through to establishment control and forecasting.

The post will support the production of monthly financial reports; proactively investigating variances and providing analytical reports as required.

We positively encourage and support continuous training with the Finance Team and study support for CCAB Qualification is available.

We support flexibility to work remotely for part of the working week.

Main duties of the job

Takes responsibility for the month end process, supervising the production of month end information to meet strict deadlines. Constantly improving systems and processes within and beyond own area.

• To prepare and to input into the ledger system journals and virements necessary to report an accurate financial position at month-ends and year-end and in accordance with GAAP.
• To produce working papers and analysis in support of month-end and year-end reporting
• To ensure that income and expenditure are correctly classified within the Trust's ledger and undertake remedial actions where they are not.
• To assist in the final accounts process and to support the completion of the Trust's annual accounts.
• Involved in the constant review of the various systems and processes used by the Trust including Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Crystal and Integra in order to introduce more effective ways of working.
• To ensure that monthly financial statements are produced and disseminated to budget holders to agreed timescales
• To analyse and report on financial performance including variances from budget, calculated forecast spend and changes in spend over extended periods of time

For further information please refer to the detailed Job Description attached

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community

health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as

psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the

NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different

settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich

and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton

Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing

healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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