Band 6 Contract Finance Accountant

at  NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

• Responsibility for supporting the implementation of the National Payment System – income and expenditure, contract finance support, controls (counting and coding), patient validation and contract forecasting.
• Delivery of contract finance function / operating model and team.
• Provide ICB Teams with expert contract finance support and strategic analysis of contract portfolio.
• Actively supporting the ICB and ICS’s financial sustainability and delivery of statutory financial targets.
• Contribute to the development of specific parts of the new contract finance models to support the transformation of services.
• To coordinate the transition of contract reporting to Secondary User Service statistics.
• Ensures that financial information provided to others is accurate, timely and useful.
• Maintains, monitors and develops through the ledger, income and expenditure budgets.
• Produces ad-hoc reports and analysis as required and answers queries promptly and accurately.
• Production of monthly and forecast contract finance reporting
• Writes and maintains procedures for own area of responsibility striving to improve them where appropriate.
• Actively supporting the ICB’s financial sustainability and delivery of statutory financial targets.
• Investigates variances on contract performance and makes required budget or expenditure adjustments for reporting overall ICB finance position .
• Assists with the collation, evaluation and reporting of externally collected data – e.g. PBR/SUS
• Uses financial and business knowledge to challenge and suggest improvements to practices and procedures.
  Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
  We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
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