Business Unit Accountant

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Band 7 Business Unit Accountant. This role involves delivering financial management and business insights, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and supporting clinical and non-clinical business units. Candidates should have relevant accounting qualifications, strong analytical skills, and experience in financial management within healthcare. Join a team that values innovation and quality in one of the UK's top performing NHS organizations.

Qualifications

• Experience in a financial management role, ideally within the healthcare sector.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate financial information effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead on monthly reporting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Train colleagues on budget management and investigate performance variances.
• Ensure financial controls are maintained according to NHS guidance.

Skills

Financial reporting

Forecasting and analysis

Budget management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Relevant Accounting Qualification

Job description

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Business Unit Accountant within the Financial Management Team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Working with the Chief Finance Manager and Principle Finance Manager, the post holder will be responsible for delivering financial management and business insights to the service leads and heads of department for clinical services. This role may rotate across clinical and non clinical business areas within the Financial Management department.

The Business Unit Accountant performs a key role specialising in the provision of financial reporting, planning and analysis to enable performance management and informed decision making. They will be skilled in supporting leaders in giving financial advice to facilitate high quality decision making within the resources available whilst supporting the Principal Finance Manager with finance responsibilities.

Duties

The fundamental principle of this role is to lead on the management accounting duties for the organisation, this includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Taking ownership and leading on all aspects of monthly reporting, forecasting and analysis of the financial position for the company with a clear understanding of key factors contributing current performance.
• Embedding finance within the division to support leaders with their financial responsibilities to deliver an safe, efficient and effective service.
• Appropriately training colleagues on budget management with effective challenge and investigation into performance variances.
• Leading on annual budget setting, appropriately and clearly capturing the resource required to deliver on operational plans for the following year.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isnt, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.

Supporting the Chief Finance Manager and Principle Finance Manager in providing a professional, high quality financial management service to Clinical and Non Clinical Business Units.

Leading on the operations of the financial management team.

Providing financial and business planning advice and insights across the Business Unit and to the Trust.

Ensuring financial controls are maintained in line with all corporate governance requirements and NHS guidance.

Delivering statutory accounts and returns that are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, adding layers of analysis and insight as appropriate.

Role modelling compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust. This involves an approach that consistently engages, enables and empowers others; leads and coaches ownership of learning and quality improvement; and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.