Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a 12 month secondment within the Trust's Financial Management Team, for an experienced Assistant Divisional Accountant.
This opportunity is for someone who is able to provide an excellent customer service to both budget holders, budget managers and other internal / external customers.
The ideal candidate will have previously worked within Finance Departments , be actively working toward a finance qualification and have excellent communication, organisational and IT skills and be committed to working flexibly in a team.
Please ensure you meet the person specifications and have the relevant experience for this role.
The post holder will be cased at the Catford offices and will be required to work across all sites.
Informal enquiries are both welcomed and encouraged.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide support to the Finance Business Partner and Deputy Finance Business Partner in the production of monthly management accounts and in providing ongoing advice to budget holders on managing and understanding their expenditure variances.
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to
- To prepare, on a monthly basis, timely and accurate budget and expenditure reports for the Directorate and to contribute to the production of summarised expenditure statements for the Senior Management Team.
- To provide a monthly analysis of the budgetary position for specific budget areas and to investigate variances.
- To provide and present financial management information, analysis and advice to budget holders and other senior staff throughout the Trust to ensure the development of robust financial forecasts.
- To work with budget managers and budget holders to develop an awareness of financial performance requirements and of the need for budgetary control.
- To provide input to the costing, pricing and financial planning activity of the Trust.
- Recommend improvements and changes to local working practices and proposing department wide policy improvements
- To ensure that budget holders receive all relevant financial information relating to their budgets in a form that will be understood and to respond to ad hoc queries relating to budgets.
- To promote compliance with the Trusts Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions within the Directorate.
- To identify own development needs and interests and to suggest areas for learning and development as part of the personal development review process
- To participate in and feedback on all relevant training and education that relates directly to the departments objectives.
- Rotation of functional role across other Directorates as instructed by Head of Financial Management.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to
- To prepare, on a monthly basis, timely and accurate budget and expenditure reports for the Directorate and to contribute to the production of summarised expenditure statements for the Senior Management Team.
- To provide a monthly analysis of the budgetary position for specific budget areas and to investigate variances.
- To provide and present financial management information, analysis and advice to budget holders and other senior staff throughout the Trust to ensure the development of robust financial forecasts.
- To work with budget managers and budget holders to develop an awareness of financial performance requirements and of the need for budgetary control.
- To provide input to the costing, pricing and financial planning activity of the Trust.
- Recommend improvements and changes to local working practices and proposing department wide policy improvements
- To ensure that budget holders receive all relevant financial information relating to their budgets in a form that will be understood and to respond to ad hoc queries relating to budgets.
- To promote compliance with the Trusts Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions within the Directorate.
- To identify own development needs and interests and to suggest areas for learning and development as part of the personal development review process
- To participate in and feedback on all relevant training and education that relates directly to the departments objectives.
- Rotation of functional role across other Directorates as instructed by Head of Financial Management.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing professional and personal development
Desirable
- Actively pursuing a CCAB professional accountancy qualification
Experience
Essential
- Expertise in interpreting accounting principles and procedures, ensuring that budget holders operate within the framework of Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.
- Experience and ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Experience of advising finance and non-finance managers on matters relating to own areas of responsibility; minimum 3 years
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
- Management Accounting experience
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge:
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data.
- Strong problem solving skills, and able to make judgements
- Ability to plan and prioritise own work weekly and monthly for reporting purposes and to meet quality standards and deadlines.
- Excellent spreadsheet skills.
- Experience of computerised accounting systems, and reporting modules
- Ability to communicate/disseminate complicated financial information/ concepts, through a variety of media, in a clear/intelligible and persuasive way
- Ability to provide advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity, when dealing with staff members, clients and members of the public
- Work closely with team members, Managers, and external parties.
- Responsive to change and ideas; adapt to new systems; flexible working pattern
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing professional and personal development
Desirable
- Actively pursuing a CCAB professional accountancy qualification
Experience
Essential
- Expertise in interpreting accounting principles and procedures, ensuring that budget holders operate within the framework of Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.
- Experience and ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Experience of advising finance and non-finance managers on matters relating to own areas of responsibility; minimum 3 years
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
- Management Accounting experience
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge:
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data.
- Strong problem solving skills, and able to make judgements
- Ability to plan and prioritise own work weekly and monthly for reporting purposes and to meet quality standards and deadlines.
- Excellent spreadsheet skills.
- Experience of computerised accounting systems, and reporting modules
- Ability to communicate/disseminate complicated financial information/ concepts, through a variety of media, in a clear/intelligible and persuasive way
- Ability to provide advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity, when dealing with staff members, clients and members of the public
- Work closely with team members, Managers, and external parties.
- Responsive to change and ideas; adapt to new systems; flexible working pattern
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
