Management Accountant

at  Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

IDEALLY WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS ALREADY WORKING NEAR A BAND 7 AND IN RETURN WE ARE ABLE TO OFFER FLEXIBLE WORKING INCLUDING A HOME/OFFICE HYBRID AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT.

Main duties of the job
To ensure financial information is processed in accordance with established procedures, in order to provide monthly reports, through completion of own work and through liaison with other colleagues within the Team & the NCA.
The post holder will be required to communicate with colleagues, managers and staff within the NCA and external organisations, including other NHS providers, commissioners & the local authority.
Responsible for producing relevant, timely and accurate reports to budget holders within the Care Organisation or group function; including identifying trends, the reasons for variances from forecasted income & expenditure & options to improve the position and providing reliable predictions for the year.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure financial information is processed in accordance with established procedures, in order to provide monthly reports, through completion of own work and through liaison with other colleagues within the Team & the NCA.
The post holder will be required to communicate with colleagues, managers and staff within the NCA and external organisations, including other NHS providers, commissioners & the local authority.
To investigate complex financial enquiries, providing assistance and advice as required.
Responsible for producing relevant, timely and accurate reports to budget holders within the Care Organisation or group function; including identifying trends, the reasons for variances from forecasted income & expenditure & options to improve the position and providing reliable predictions for the year.
Assisting with the assessment of the full financial implications of proposals and their affordability within the overall resources identified.
To supervise the day-to-day activities of the budget managers, budget officers and other junior members of staff within the Team as required by the Senior Management Accountant.
To assist in the interpretation and/or implementation of new regulations and guidance where appropriate.
To undertake ad-hoc tasks from time to time as directed by the Senior Management Accountant.
To deputise as required for the Senior Management Accountant in their absence.

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGMENTAL SKILLS

The post holder will analyse and interpret the financial performance of the Care Organisation or group function.
To provide forecasts of likely expenditure, identifying options for management action where costs are likely to exceed budget. This will need to be explicit on the impact these options may have on the achievement of other service targets that have to be met.

PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS

To monitor achievement of plans and identify any deviation from plans; supporting the development of a range of options to deal with any such deviation.
Updates existing procedures as required.

PHYSICAL SKILLS

The post-holder will be required to undertake normal office activities and input and manipulate financial data into computer spreadsheets where speed and accuracy are necessary.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES

The finance tasks involved with this role include:

• Become familiar with management accounting techniques, policies, procedures and routines and be expected to comply with all Trust policies, Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions with the minimum of supervision.
• Ensure that all entries into the financial systems within the Trust are correctly coded and authorised appropriately.
• Calculate and prepare recharges of expenditure to external agencies.
• Calculate accruals and prepayments within strict deadlines for all periodic payments ensuring accurate records are maintained.
• Complete, calculate and process of income and expenditure journals in accordance with the reporting timetable.
• Complete, calculate and input of budget journals into the Finance system in line with the agreed procedure
• Analyse income and expenditure, identifying, investigating and reporting the reasons for any variances.
• To contribute to the business planning and budget setting process, and to provide the ongoing and regular financial monitoring information and advice needed to support the effective management of these resources.
• To contribute to the production of budget statements for budget holders within the Care Organisation or group function and to monitor costs and to ensure budgets are updated when necessary.
• Contribute towards the preparation of ad-hoc financial returns as appropriate.
• Continually develop, introduce and improve the systems to assist financial management, monitoring and reporting in the Care Organisation or group function.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HUMAN RESOURCES

Assist the Finance Team in the training and development of the Operational Team staff with respect to financial management.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

There are no responsibilities for Research and Development within this role.