Assistant Management Accountant

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The purpose of the post is to support the Finance Business Partner and Directorate Accountant in providing information to the Finance Managers and Budget Holders for the Medicine Directorate ensuring that the Trust meets both its financial and performance targets.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Finance Business Partner and Directorate Accountant with the production of the monthly financial reports and annual budget setting process for the Medicine Service Lines (including Specialty Medicine, General Medicine, Acute Medicine and Emergency Medicine).

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Date posted

24 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

418-FIN9674-EH

Job locations

Luton & Dunstable Hospital or Bedford Hospital

Luton or Bedford

LU4 0DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assist with the production of timely and accurate financial statements for the Medicine Directorate on a monthly basis through the calculation and posting of accruals and prepayments.

To support budget holders in managing their financial position such that the Trust is able to achieve its financial targets. This will include providing complex and sensitive information, and will require skills of negotiation and persuasion.

Support the Finance Business Partner and Directorate Accountants with variance analysis.

Deal with queries from budget holders and other member of the finance team.

To run the financial reports of the Directorates financial position to the Finance Business Partner and Directorate Accountant to allow aggregation of the Trusts financial position on a timely monthly basis.

To assist with analysis of financial trends involving many streams of data and forecast financial expenditure.

Ensure invoices to other organisations for regular and ad-hoc services provided are raised in a timely manner and direct any queries received for any invoices to the relevant finance colleague.

To help prepare annual Directorate budgets for service planning, supporting the Finance Business Partner, Directorate Accountant and budget holders through the budget setting process.

To assist with monitoring & recording of budgetary changes throughout the year for relevant Directorates.

To act independently and show initiative under the supervision of Finance Business Partner and Directorate Accountant

To provide ad hoc support to Directorate Accountant, Finance Business Partner, Finance Managers, Director of Finance & other team members as and when required.