Assistant Head of Financial Accounting

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board seeks an Assistant Head of Financial Accounting to oversee financial accounting and charitable funds functions. This senior role involves ensuring compliance with financial standards and leading a team within a multi-award-winning NHS organization, offering flexible work and extensive career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Extensive training and development opportunities

Occupational health support

Qualifications

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant required.
• Relevant post-qualified experience at a senior level.
• Knowledge of financial accounting and NHS Charities rules is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead Financial Accounting and Charitable Funds functions.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
• Manage Freedom of Information requests within the department.

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Qualified CCAB accountant

Tools

Oracle Financials

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

We are seeking to recruit a Assistant Head of Financial Accounting within our Corporate Finance Department working as part of the Financial Services & Accounting Team, based in Cwmbran.

This role will be responsible for the Financial Accounting and Charitable Funds functions of the Health Board. The role has key responsibilities in the completion of the Monthly Monitoring Returns to Welsh Government and the Statutory Annual Accounts for the Health Board

The successful applicant will lead on the the completion of the Charitable Funds Annual Accounts ensuring financial reporting standards and charity commission guidance are interpreted and followed. The post holder will also be the lead for completing Freedom of Information requests received within the Finance department.

We are seeking a self-motivated, enthusiastic and numerate individual with excellent IT skills. You will be required to work as part of a team and on your own initiative and must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills. Detailed knowledge of Financial Accounting and NHS Charities rules are essential for this position.

The successful applicant must be a qualified member of CCAB/CIMA and have relevant post qualification experience.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a senior Finance professional within the Aneurin Bevan UHB. The post holder will be expected to:

• Be a member of the Finance Senior Team and is responsible for leading and delivering the Financial Accounting and Charitable Funds functions within the Health Board.
• Ensure the delivery of an efficient and effective service and will develop these functions to be best in class and deliver full assurance in our core financial system audit of these functions.
• Lead on developing standard operating procedures for the areas of responsibility ensuring compliance, with any system weaknesses being quickly addressed and resolved.
• Be the main point of contact for completing Freedom of Information requests received within the department.
• Lead in certain aspects of the completion of the monthly monitoring return information and statutory annual accounts ensuring that financial reporting standards are interpreted and fully met in order to ensure an unqualified audit opinion.
• Lead on the completion of the charitable funds annual accounts ensuring that financial reporting standards and charity commission guidance are interpreted and fully met in order to ensure an unqualified audit opinion.
• Provide vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the overall finance agenda.
• Provides direct support to the Head of Financial Services and Accounting and will be required to deputise in their absence.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant
• Relevant post qualified experience working at a senior level
• Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of work experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant experience of working at a senior level in a large complex organisation.
• Experience of planning and implementing long-term strategy
• Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment.
• Experience of working with staff, their representatives and trade unions/professional organisations
• Participation in significant change management projects
• Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
• Substantial experience of Financial Accounting and Charitable Funds delivering high quality information to challenging deadlines.
• Able to demonstrate experience of working in a customer focused manner.
• High degree of knowledge of generally accepted accounting practices.
• Experience of using Oracle financials and iProcurement system (or a similar system)
  
  

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information.
• Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
• Sound judgment, decision making, and organisational skills.
• Able to interpret legislation, national guidance as appropriate to the role.
• Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive.
• Self-motivated and committed to developing self and team members.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively.
• Advanced IT skills, including Windows and Microsoft products.
• Ability to empower, coach and support staff.
• Ability to absorb and understand issues quickly
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable.
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Self-aware with high levels of interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated, proactive and innovative
• Commitment to achieving high standards.
• Politically astute with high level of intuition.
• Flexible with an appetite for hard work and challenges
• Show resilience, stamina and reliability under sustain pressure, never losing sight of objectives.
• High levels of personal integrity
• Independently mobile to meet the requirements of the post