Directorate Management Accountant

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a dynamic individual to join their Management Accounting team. This role involves providing financial advice and producing financial statements for service lines. The successful candidate must demonstrate a commitment to achieving CCAB/CIMA qualification with experience in financial management. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential as the post-holder supports budget holders and assists in financial decision making. Excellent development opportunities are provided within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Access to high-quality training and development

Commitment to equality and diversity

Qualifications

• Proven track record in financial management.
• Sufficient relevant experience and achievement of specific competencies.
• Academic success.

Responsibilities

• Produce timely and accurate financial statements for Directorates.
• Support budget holders in managing their financial position.
• Assist senior financial managers with financial decision making.
• Prepare annual Directorate budgets for service planning.
• Monitor and control budgetary changes throughout the year.

Skills

Communication skills

Team working

Financial management

Education

CCAB/CIMA qualification commitment

Job description

About the role

Please note that this role requires the successful applicant to be based on site Monday to Friday.

At Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and pride ourselves on being a supportive team. We are a level 2 accredited One NHS Finance employer and are striving to achieve the Level 3 accreditation. We value our diverse workforce and our finance staff are pivotal in shaping how we address the financial challenges we face going forward.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join our Management Accounting team. This post provides financial advice and management accounting support to a number of surgery service lines within the Trust.

This is an excellent role for an ambitious individual who likes challenges, is self‑motivated and wants to use their financial skills to add value and understand how financial resources can be used to support service improvement. The post holder will play a crucial role in ensuring robust and timely management accounting information is available to service lines.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate commitment to achieve CCAB/CIMA qualification, and be able to demonstrate sufficient relevant experience and achievement of specific competencies. In return the post offers a breadth of experience and an excellent development opportunity.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven track record in financial management, academic success and with strong personal qualities, including communication skills and team working.

The post‑holder will be responsible for the production and analysis of monthly financial statements for a number of service lines. They will provide financial advice to general managers and other budget holders that will assist them in the preparation of annual budgets and business plans. The post‑holder will also provide ad hoc support to other members of the finance team as required.

Key responsibilities

• To produce timely and accurate financial statements for Directorates on a monthly basis.
• To support budget holders in managing their financial position such that the Trust is able to achieve its financial targets. This will include providing complex and sensitive information, requiring skills of negotiation and persuasion.
• To support negotiations with NHS and external organisations over cost/service issues.
• To report Directorates financial position to the Finance Manager (FM) to allow aggregation of the Trust’s financial position on a timely monthly basis.
• To assist in the Directorate’s procurement strategy to minimise cost incurred.
• To analyse complex financial trends involving many streams of data and forecast financial expenditure, using own initiative to make appropriate assumptions.
• To assist senior financial managers & clinicians with financial decision making and risk mitigation through in depth analysis of activity/income.
• To prepare annual Directorate budgets for service planning, supporting budget holders through the budget setting process.
• To monitor & control budgetary changes throughout the year for relevant Directorates and to propose changes to the control procedures which impact on other team members’ areas.
• To provide ad hoc support to FM, Director of Finance & other team members in planning projects that impact across the department and the organisation.
• To help co‑ordinate work of other staff members in section and to allocate and check the work to junior staff members and to deliver appropriate training to new/junior staff members.
• Review of activity and income on a monthly basis, to ensure activity is recorded and reflected on SLR.
• Costing for business cases, including for activity, income and expenditure.

Qualifications

• Commitment to achieve CCAB/CIMA qualification.
• Sufficient relevant experience and achievement of specific competencies.
• Proven track record in financial management.
• Academic success.
• Strong personal qualities, including communication skills and team working.

Accreditations

• Level 2 accredited One NHS Finance employer, working towards Level 3.
• ACCA Approved Employer Programme.
• CIMA Premier Partner.
• AAT Employer Scheme.

Benefits & development

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics‑led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Values – We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience – we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.

The Finance Team has over 50 members of staff working in Financial Accounts, Management Accounts and Contracting across the Bedford and Luton Site. It is a great place to work where we support learning and development of our staff. We have an excellent track record of supporting, developing and promoting our staff internally.

This advert closes on Monday 19 Jan 2026.