Job summary
To provide timely and accurate management information to the Trust's budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.
To participate in the production of the costing and pricing process.
To work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
- Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements.
- Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial positionInvestigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
- Reviewing financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
- Produce accurate year end forecasts.
- Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
- To ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC)
- Work through complex financial and non-financial workloads with minimal supervision or support
- To manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS FT are part of the South East London Finance Academy.
The South East London Finance Academy is committed to fostering professional development and career growth for all with a particular aim ofenhancing opportunities for under-represented groups and improving the diversity of our finance community.
This means, that as part of our Secondment Pledge, this permanent role is advertised with the flexibility of a potential secondment opportunity forthe successful candidate. If you would like to explore this flexibility, please discuss with your current line manager and raise for discussion with therecruiting manager, this will not adversely affect your application in any way. Whilst all secondments will require agreement from both the host andreceiving organisations, all organisations within SEL are committed to approaching this conversation positively.If successful, and you would like to take up the secondment opportunity, you will need to complete the Secondment Request Form found here toaid discussion with your host and receiving organisations. On successful completion of the secondment, and in collaboration with your receivingorganisation, you will have the opportunity to convert the secondment to a substantive appointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
To provide timely and accurate management information to the Trusts budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.
To work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.
The post holder will either be AAT qualified or actively pursuing a recognised accounting qualification. The post holder should be self-motivated with good communication and spreadsheet skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
- Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
- Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and to produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
- Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
- Investigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
- Participation in the costing and pricing of the Trusts activity.
- Reviewing financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
- Produce accurate year end forecasts.
- Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
- Assisting managers in developing business plans for their areas of responsibility.
- To liaise with internal departments and external agencies to obtain relevant information in a timely manner.
- Support Finance Business Partner in implementing Service Line Reporting.
- Maintain adequate records for audit purposes.
- To ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC)
- Ensure the budget is kept updated for alterations throughout the year in line with budget rules and Standing Financial Instructions.
- Work through complex financial and non-financial workloads with minimal supervision or support
- To manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives
- Assisting in other ad-hoc financial exercises as required.
- Undertake any other duties applicable to the grade/post as required.
- This post involves the use of display screen equipment as a significant part of normal works and the job holder will be a user as defined in the Health & Safety Policy on work with DSE.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
To provide timely and accurate management information to the Trusts budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.
To work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.
The post holder will either be AAT qualified or actively pursuing a recognised accounting qualification. The post holder should be self-motivated with good communication and spreadsheet skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
- Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
- Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and to produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
- Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
- Investigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
- Participation in the costing and pricing of the Trusts activity.
- Reviewing financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
- Produce accurate year end forecasts.
- Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
- Assisting managers in developing business plans for their areas of responsibility.
- To liaise with internal departments and external agencies to obtain relevant information in a timely manner.
- Support Finance Business Partner in implementing Service Line Reporting.
- Maintain adequate records for audit purposes.
- To ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC)
- Ensure the budget is kept updated for alterations throughout the year in line with budget rules and Standing Financial Instructions.
- Work through complex financial and non-financial workloads with minimal supervision or support
- To manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives
- Assisting in other ad-hoc financial exercises as required.
- Undertake any other duties applicable to the grade/post as required.
- This post involves the use of display screen equipment as a significant part of normal works and the job holder will be a user as defined in the Health & Safety Policy on work with DSE.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- minimum 2 years experience in management accounting
Desirable
- management accounting experience within an NHS organisation
Experience
Essential
- detailed understanding of finance and accounting procedures with some understanding of their application within an NHS organisation
Skills
Essential
- Good working knowledge and experience of systems, excel, budgeting systems, financial ledger systems and reporting software
Experience
Essential
- experience of working to tight deadlines with the ability to prioritise own workload
Skills
Essential
- good communication skills both written and verbal
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- minimum 2 years experience in management accounting
Desirable
- management accounting experience within an NHS organisation
Experience
Essential
- detailed understanding of finance and accounting procedures with some understanding of their application within an NHS organisation
Skills
Essential
- Good working knowledge and experience of systems, excel, budgeting systems, financial ledger systems and reporting software
Experience
Essential
- experience of working to tight deadlines with the ability to prioritise own workload
Skills
Essential
- good communication skills both written and verbal
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).
