Management Accountant

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, pro-active individual to join the Financial Management Team at Whittington Health supporting Emergency & Integrated Medicine and Surgery & Cancer ICSUs
You will provide financial management support to the above Integrated Clinical Service Units (ICSUs). This will require active engagement with clinical and non-clinical teams in financial performance management, cost improvement development and ensuring that the financial planning process is sound.
You will be required to support the Finance team in the provision of a comprehensive management accounting service, including responsibility for a range of specified budgets to provide support and advice to non-finance managers / budget holders.
The service includes preparation of annual budgets, monitoring and reporting performance against budgets including variance analysis; analysing unit / activity costs, evaluating cost improvement programmes and monitoring achievement against targets. In addition, the post-holder will work with and advise budget holders in the preparation of business plans and capital investment appraisals.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Creating budgetary reports from financial information systems, distributing these to budget-holders and meeting with them to discuss performance.
To be able to perform the following duties competently by the required deadlines: -
Prepare and/ or input expenditure and pre-payment/ accrual journals
Prepare and/ or input internal transfer journals to support improved management information e.g. internal recharges, coding transfers.
Prepare and/ or input budget journals
Ensuring that all income and expenditure is correctly accounted for in an accurate & timely basis including recharges to and from other organisations, (eg. prudence and accruals concepts).
Monitoring performance against budget including variance analysis.
To respond to requests for information and queries from budget holders in a timely and professional manner, including the production of supplementary analysis using spreadsheets, ad-hoc reports from the financial systems and relevant advice on interpreting information.
To ensure that all staff change and recruitment forms are processed promptly and with due care and attention.
To ensure all staff are recorded and reported on the correct financial codes (subjectively and against correct budget/cost centre).
To ensure the establishment records are updated and reconciled against payroll information on a regular basis.
To reconcile actual and budgeted whole time equivalent (WTE) values between the establishment list and budget statements.
To ensure that financial and manpower information is prepared and reconciled in time to meet the financial reporting timetable.
To provide input into the forecasting template
To meet with budget-holders as required.
To be able to provide informal training to budget-holders on financial issues.
To provide on the job training, in own areas of responsibility, to other staff as necessary
To contribute towards the production of information for inclusion in the Trust’s Annual Statutory Accounts, in accordance with professional Accounting Standards and NHS guidelines, and in line with the National timetable.
To ensure that appropriate working papers are prepared for provision to the External Auditors

Please refer the Job description for details