Business Unit Accountant

NHS; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Business Unit Accountant within the Financial Management Team. This role involves delivering financial management, reporting, and business insights to clinical service leads. Candidates should have a professional accountancy qualification, strong financial management experience, and a commitment to ongoing professional development. The organization offers innovative healthcare services and values its staff experience as much as the patients'.

Qualifications

• Professional Accountancy qualification or equivalent knowledge is essential.
• Ongoing participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme is required.
• Experience working with financial controls and governance.

Responsibilities

• Support the Chief Finance Manager in financial management.
• Lead the financial management operations.
• Provide financial planning advice across the Business Unit.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and governance.
• Deliver accurate statutory accounts and returns.
• Model inclusive leadership and promote collaboration.

Skills

Financial Management

Reporting and Analysis

Leadership

Oracle Financials

Education

Professional Accountancy qualification

Participation in Continuing Professional Development

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Business Unit Accountant

The closing date is 19 November 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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.

About us

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 isn't, 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.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Accountancy qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
• Ongoing participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme or equivalent.

Experience

• Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of Financial Management, acquired over a substantial period working alongside other professional accountants, attending appropriate courses and undertaking extended self study.
• o Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
• Knowledge NHS financial regimes and legislation

Other

• o It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust