Senior Assistant Management AccountantNHS

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Assistant Management Accountant, acting as a key member of the Financial Management team. The postholder will provide accurate and timely financial information and reporting to colleagues internal and external to Finance, including providing support to budget holders across the organisation.

The successful candidate will have strong numeracy skills and attention to detail, alongside excellent I.T. and communication skills.

The department currently has a hybrid working policy, so the successful candidate will be required to work a minimum of 3 days a week in the office. With sites at both Southport and Knowsley.

Interview Date is yet to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Assistant Management Accountant's main duties will be to:

• Ensure the provision of high quality financial information and accurate advice to budget holders and other non-finance managers.
• Develop good working relationships with budget holders, regularly meeting with them to review their financial information and provide advice.
• Assist Financial Management colleagues in ensuring income and expenditure is monitored and is recorded accurately, including monitoring variances from planned income and expenditure and resolving queries with budget holders and Finance colleagues.
• Use Excel and other software to provide financial reports and conduct financial analysis, using formulae and other functionality as required.
• Complete regular tasks accurately and in line with the monthly timetable, including where relevant internal recharges between departments and updates to the ledger to reflect an accurate financial position.
• Ensure most effective use of the Trust's financial resources, including assisting with the annual budget setting/financial planning process by updating and reviewing information for the new financial year, including staffing information. To liaise with budget holders as part of this process, to ensure accurate information is used.
• Proactively review regular tasks within their areas of responsibility, identifying opportunities for improvements and more efficient working to support continuous improvement of the Finance function.

Job description

For the main responsibilities and requirements of this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme