Management Accountant

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To undertake, delegate and supervise tasks as part of the monthly management accounting cycle, within specified criteria and deadlines.
• To ensure procedure notes for junior staff are clearly documented and revised on a timely basis, and that correct accounting treatment is understood and applied.
• To interrogate all financial ledgers and Payroll systems and use, design and format spreadsheets and databases in order to analyse, interpret and present information.
• To take responsibility for preparing monthly budget reports, ensuring all jobs are complete and reports are as up to date and accurate as possible.
• Preparation of variance analysis and investigation of variances on budget reports and taking corrective action where necessary. Presentation of detailed
• Final variance analysis to Deputy Divisional Business Accountant.
• To meet with budget holders on a monthly basis to explain and discuss the financial position. To appraise the Deputy Divisional Business Accountant of any concerns/issues regarding financial objectives being met so to ensure that action can be planned and implemented that will correct any adverse trends or meet specified cost reductions.
• To contribute to the ongoing training and support to budget holders in understanding and making the best use of their budget reports.
• To advise the budget holders on a wide range of financial issues, including identifying cost improvement targets, income generation, costing of rebased establishments and financial management. To ensure that all financial proposals have been accurately costed, and that the department is aware of the full implications of the proposals. To seek advice on issues from the Senior Management Accountant/ Deputy Divisional Business Accountant.
• Prepare year end financial forecasts for Departmental budgets incorporating all known and potential financial issues. Discuss and agree resultant figures with budget holders and Senior Management Accountant/Deputy Divisional Business Accountant.
• Contribute towards the annual Trust business planning and budget setting process. Ensure that all relevant issues are considered by budget holders (e.g., cost pressures, cost improvements plans, service developments), and that the financial implications have been fully costed and feedback to the Senior Management Accountant/ Deputy Divisional Business Accountant so they can be included in any business cases, service developments or business plan submission.
• Investigating and responding to complex ad-hoc queries, both internally and externally, in an appropriate format and in a timely and accurate manner, involving more senior team members where appropriate.
• Responsibility for specific projects within the team, or department wide, as directed by Senior Management Accountant/Deputy Divisional Business Accountant. E.g. completion of budget reconciliations, involvement in Reference Costing, development of processes, systems and reports.
• Provision of detailed pay and non pay costing information.
• Deal with ad-hoc financial coding queries and amendments e.g., from Creditors, Procurement, budget holders and managers.
• Responsibility for ensuring the team year end control account codes are fully reconciled and have supporting information.
• Support the Management Accountancy Assistant where required. Provide cover during Senior Management Accountants absence.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• AAT
• GCSE maths
• GCSE English
• Professional Accounting qualification

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in a finance role and using financial ledger packages.
• Computer literacy, with competent use of Excel spreadsheets.
• Ability to work to own initiative on a regular basis and prioritise workloads.
• NHS Experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly in order to meet deadlines.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Moat Road

Walsall

WS2 9PS

Employer's website

https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)