Band 6 Senior Management Accountant

The Methodist Church in Britain; Normanton on Trent; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible shifts

Wellbeing resources

Paid annual leave

Access to NHS Trusts

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a finance professional for a six-month bank assignment in the finance team. The role focuses on keeping monthly income and expenditure accurate, handling income collection and debt recovery, and serving as the first point of contact for service managers on financial matters.

The post is a weekday role of 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, with training of service managers on Trust financial policy.

Qualifications

• 3+ years management accounting experience, including producing monthly reports.
• Experience dealing with service managers or customers.
• Familiarity with NHS financial policies and Standing Financial Instructions is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Build collaborative relationships with service managers and finance colleagues.
• Act as lead point of contact for service managers on financial issues.
• Train service managers on NHS policy, processes and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of monthly financial transactions.

Skills

Collaboration with managers

IT literacy (finance systems)

Data analysis

Communicating sensitive data

Workload management

Autonomy

Tools

Finance systems

Reporting tools

Job description

This is a six-month bank assignment in the finance team of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, supplied through NHS Professionals. The work centres on keeping monthly income and expenditure accurate, handling income collection and debt recovery, and acting as the first point of contact for service managers on financial matters. The post is a weekday role of 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, and includes training service managers on Trust financial policy. Three years of management accounting experience, including two years producing monthly reports, is required.

What the job involves

• Build collaborative working relationships and efficient processes with service managers and finance colleagues, responding to queries promptly
• Act as lead point of contact for service managers on all financial issues
• Train service managers on Trust policy, processes and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of monthly financial transactions and data, in line with accounting procedures and Standing Financial Instructions
• Ensure all income and expenditure, including internal recharges, is accounted for on a timely basis
• Support service managers to put service level agreements and contracts in place before services are delivered
• Collect income due and raise invoices in line with service level and contractual arrangements
• Monitor invoice payments and support credit control and recovery of overdue debt
• Support prompt resolution of income and expenditure accruals
• Review and improve processes that post source transactions incorrectly, to reduce transfer journals
• Run designated ad hoc processes, such as lease car applications and allocation of consolidated invoices

What’s required

Experience

• At least 3 years management accounting experience, including dealing with service managers or customers
• At least 2 years of that providing monthly financial reports and management information

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships with customers and finance colleagues
• Competent IT literacy, with experience of finance systems and reporting tools
• Good data analysis skills, identifying and using information from a range of sources
• Ability to analyse sensitive data and communicate it clearly to colleagues at all levels
• Ability to manage and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities

Other

• Understanding of the NHS operating environment, including NHS organisation and regulatory structure

What’s offered

• Access to learning and development opportunities for career progression
• Flexible shifts and committed shifts
• Wellbeing resources
• Paid annual leave
• Access to over 50 partner NHS Trusts, with choice of where and how to work