Band 7 Senior Management Accountant - Bath

Band 7 Senior Management Accountant - Bath

If you believe in putting patients first and supporting the delivery of sustainable mental health services then we want to hear from you.

We make it our priority to give the best possible care in the right place at the right time to help our users recover and live their best life.

You can help us achieve this by joining a collaborative, hardworking and inclusive finance team who encourage development and high standards.

We are currently looking for a UK qualified accountant to work as a Senior Management Accountant for the corporate directorates.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with senior managers and directors within the corporate directorates, providing financial analysis, support, advice and challenge to help them deliver a financially sustainable service.

You will also ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts and forecasts for the corporate directorates within the Trust.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job responsibilities

This role will help budget holders to deliver a financially sustainable service, by providing financial analysis, support, advice and challenge as necessary.

The role will ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts and forecasts for the corporate directorates within the Trust.

The role includes the management of other staff within the Finance department.

The role will also ensure budget holders are trained to understand their financial position and support the budget holders with strategic financial queries.

This role will support the Deputy Director of Finance and Head of Financial Management & Costing by providing relevant analysis of data to support contract negotiations and other work.

This role fits within a busy finance department and will include other Trust wide and ad hoc tasks appropriate to the grade.

Person Specification Qualifications

• CCAB Qualified

Experience

• Must be able to demonstrate in depth knowledge and experience of financial procedures and reporting requirements in the NHS or other Public Sector.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience in developing the management accounting function in a Public Sector organisation.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience at budget setting, reporting and forecasting including use of financial modelling.
• Experience of a management accounting role in an NHS Trust
• Excellent verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to write technical reports in a clear and concise manner

Skills

• Thoroughly proficient in using Excel to develop models and analysis
• Ability to explain complex professional technical matters clearly to colleagues and non-finance managers

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.