Management Accountant

Job responsibilities

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all our communities. It has a wide range of functions including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities. With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across health and care we look after 3.1 million people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers. The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS foundation trusts in the region to deliver our shared priorities.

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

Qualifications

Essential

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

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly developed interpersonal and diplomacy skills, with an understanding of confidentiality and risk identification.
• Ability to foster good working relationships and work effectively as part of numerous teams.
• Ability to demonstrate persuasive, motivational and negotiation skills.
• Discuss financial queries with budget holders, suppliers, practice staff, federations and PCNs, which are often complex, including reasons for delays in payment and other sensitive issues; discusses financial issues with customers, which may be contentious; provide advice on complex financial and corporate issues to non-financial managers; negotiates with NHS, external organisations over cost, service issues.
• Highly confident in the ability to justify financial information and assumptions when challenged.
• Able to analyse and present complex data in a range of formats for different audiences.
• Ability to use specialist knowledge and expertise to advise finance and non-finance managers on matters relating to their own area, providing detailed advice and guidance based on personal experience and expertise in the role.
• Provide training and support relating to areas of expertise.

Planning and Organisational Skill

Essential

• Evidence of effective organisational skills.
• Able to prioritise and respond flexibly to frequently changing demands.
• Suggest changes to working practices and procedures and implements procedures in own area proposing changes to and redesign procedures which may have impact on other areas.

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.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

Essential

• Able to analyse and interpret complex data frequently requiring prolonged periods of concentrations.
• Advanced keyboard skills and spreadsheet skills.
• Designs, formats spreadsheets and databases for specific purposes/
• responsible for introducing, adapting and improving financial systems in own area of responsibility.
• Able to accurately provide forecasts for planning and reporting.

UK Registration

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