Management Accountant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide financial management support to the Head of Finance, supporting the development of detailed financial plans, budgets and forecasting information for all budgets delegated to ICB delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

Provide financial management support to the Head of Finance.

Contribute to the development and monitoring of detailed budgets.

Contribute to the management and maintenance of effective budgetary control systems.

Analyse complex financial information, identifying and investigating any errors or discrepancies and provide and implement resolution where appropriate.

Discussing and advising NECS financial team on complex financial queries, providing advice on finance and corporate issues to non-financial Managers.

Monthly budget meetings with NECS financial team and provider management to discuss, advise, spending plans performance and financial implications.

Ensure financial plans are accurate and feasible and guide management action where necessary to support delivery of financial balance and achievement of QIPP.

Ensure that claims are processed in a timely manner meeting the submission deadlines for payments.

Produce forecast information which can be used for planning and ensuring organisational targets are met.

Provide financial support as appropriate to work steams and directors within the organisation.

Assist the Head of Finance with regular finance duties by supervising the completion of ready to pay files, manual payments, raising charge notes and supplier set-up.

Operate within the Standard Financial Instructions and the delegated budget authority for the role.

Foster a culture where analysis of demand and activity is regarded as supportive with a view to understanding the need to achieve optimum healthcare within available resources.

Provide information to the Head of Finance relating to monitoring and understanding of activity variation.

Respond to complex finance queries with staff, suppliers and customers including responding to performance issues and feedback.

Propose changes to accounting and financial policies and procedures which can impact on other areas.

Manage and undertake a range of complex pieces of work simultaneously, as required, gathering and interpreting detailed information, ensuring deadlines are achieved, demonstrating excellent time management and analytical skills.

Contribute to the delivery of the QIPP programme. Provide information to the Head of Finance for the monitoring and delivery of QIPP.

The role requires concentration for long periods when managing and undertaking a range of complex pieces of work simultaneously as required, gathering, and interpreting detailed information, ensuring deadlines are achieved, demonstrating excellent time management and analytical skills.

Create and develop complex financial and demand management spreadsheets and reports.

Supports work on the Better Care Fund financial planning and reporting.

Works with budget managers across the local delivery unit and the wider ICB where appropriate.

Co-ordinates work of more junior staff/delivers finance and budget management training.

Provide technical support to colleagues including development of spreadsheets and analysis of complex data.

Provide any other relevant support to the Head of Finance.

Any other duties as appropriate.

Please see job description attached for a full overview of the role and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Postgraduate Diploma Professional Accountancy Qualification or equivalent experience.
• NVQ Level 5/AAT Qualified / Part Qualified accountant or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

• Experience and expertise in a range of accounting areas (reconciliation and balances, finance computer systems and ledgers, coding structures etc).
• Project management experience and or qualification.
• Able to demonstrate on-going personal / professional development.
• Evidence of experience of working in a health-related organisation.
• Experience of planning and organising workload to ensure deadlines are met.
• Proven track record to work to complex changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Evidence of supporting project management and project implementation and working to strict deadlines.
• Extensive experience in the use of computerised ledger systems.
• Use of Oracle.
• Experience of analysing complex data.
• Experience of working with and developing complex spreadsheets.
• Evidence of working in a primary care setting.
• Evidence of supporting large scale complex change projects.
• Evidence of planning and organising resources to support project implementation.
• Evidence of successfully applying negotiation and influencing skills.

Desirable

• Understanding of Commissioning.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North East & North Cumbria ICB

Address

Pemberton House

Sunderland

SR5 3XB

Employer's website

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