Assistant Management Accountant

NHS; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a motivated Assistant Management Accountant to join its team in Shrewsbury. This role involves producing financial reports, assisting in budget setting, and providing financial guidance to managers. Candidates should be AAT members or have equivalent education, alongside solid experience in management accounting. The position offers flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience applying management accounting procedures and practices.
• Experience providing advice to financial and non-financial managers.
• Knowledge of budget setting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly financial reports and variance analysis.
• Assist in year-end accounts and budget setting.
• Provide financial advice and training to non-financial managers.

Skills

Numeracy and attention to detail

Advanced Excel skills

Management accounting knowledge

Experience in budget setting

Education

Member of The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)

Degree or NVQ level 5

Tools

Oracle ledger system

Job description

Please note that this job does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

We believe that a Finance Team should be customer focused, provide added value, and be enablers to ensure front line services deliver the best possible care for service users. If you are a likeminded finance professional then Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust has an opportunity for a highly motivated Assistant Management Accountant to join its high performing Finance team.

Reporting to a Senior Management Accountant, the successful applicant will be an integral part of the team, delivering month end, meeting with services, investigating variances to plan, working on costings & business cases and much more.

Based in Shrewsbury, the post holder will be able to work flexibly between home and the office.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• Producing accurate and timely monthly reporting, ensuring it represents a true and fair view at any given time. Investigation of variances from plan and the production of variance analysis.
• To contribute to the production of the year end accounts, including the preparation of working papers and liaison with the external auditors.
• Assist in completing the annual budget setting exercise for area of responsibility working with colleagues to ensure realistic budgets are set across the Trust.
• Supporting financial planning through the maintenance of budgets and calculating of forecasts, liaising with managers as required.
• Providing detailed advice and guidance to support managers discharge their financial management and stewardship duties effectively. Ensure that non-finance managers understand and can use the information provided to them.
• To provide finance training to non-finance managers.
• Identification and implementation of changes to procedures in own areas and which have an impact on other areas for service improvement.
• To provide financial advice to finance and operational colleagues on complex and potentially sensitive issues. To provide challenge in relation to overspends and the identification of CIP.
• To prepare complex costings to support contract variations, new business, or service delivery under the supervision of the Senior Management Accountant

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Memeber of The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or or equivalent (i.e. NVQ level 5 or a degree)

Experience

• Experience of applying knowledge and expertise in all Management Accounting work procedures and practices
• Experience of providing detailed advice and guidance to team members and managers (financial and non-financial)
• Experience of implementing changes to procedures in own areas and which have an impact on other areas

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of key Management Accounting work principles and practices e.g. budget setting, forecasting, variance analysis
• Numeracy and an eye for detail, capable of working quickly to a high standard of accuracy
• Able to make judgements involving complex financial and non-financial data, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
• Able to prioritise and work within imposed timetables for oneself and others and to manage conflict and tensions between local and corporate priorities
• Have proven IT skills including regular use of advanced Excel functions (e.g. pivot tables, lookups); use of an Oracle ledger system would be an advantage

Other

• Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post

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.