Junior Management Accountant

This role is integral to ensuring accurate financial reporting, supporting key accounting functions, and providing valuable insights for strategic decision-making. The successful candidate will be responsible for month-end processes, financial reconciliations, and management reporting, while also assisting with budgeting, forecasting, and payroll support.

The Person

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Junior Management Accountant to join our growing finance team, with a confident accountancy and finance knowledge who holds a passion for financial career and hunger to retain to the DMC’s top standards it matches to the healthcare sector.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of month-end closing activities, including account reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Oversee invoicing and bookkeeping processes, ensuring accurate and timely transaction posting.
• Prepare and present monthly cash flow reports and management accounts, offering insights to the board.
• Process and review journal entries, ensuring proper recording of accruals and prepayments.
• Manage accounts payable and receivable functions, ensuring efficient processing of invoices, payments, and collections.
• Maintain financial dashboards, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) for internal reporting.
• Conduct regular bank reconciliations and oversee weekly pay runs.
• Support the management of the company’s finance facility, ensuring adequate liquidity for operational needs.
• Assist in managing mortgage arrangements, including monthly payments and reconciliations.
• Oversee company insurance policies, including renewals and compliance.
• Support payroll processing and ensure accurate, timely payments to employees.
• Assist with NHS Framework submissions on a monthly basis.
• Prepare profit and loss (P&L) models to support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Manage departments buy and sell cards, ensuring accurate recording and reconciliation of transactions.
• Provide financial support for bid and tender submissions, ensuring financial data aligns with business objectives.

Personal Specification

• Part qualified with some formal accounting training such as ACCA, CIMA, AAT.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• 6 months+ of experience using Xero.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience in financial reporting, reconciliations, and management accounting.
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple deadlines effectively.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial data clearly to stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in financial data entry and record keeping.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively. Meeting deadline requirements, independently and as a team.

Desirable

• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field is preferred.
• Previous experience in bookkeeping or a similar role.
• Experience working within the healthcare sector (desirable but not essential).

Why DMC and its Benefits?

Our TRUST values reinforce that what we do is built on strong teamwork, respect for one another and importantly respect for the patient. We take time to listen and understand everyone’s needs, we’re supportive and truly care and whatever we do, we do it together.

DMC takes pride in a diverse workforce, involving a range of talented and knowledgeable experts working together as teams. This includes clinical experts, who constantly strive towards delivering the best patient care, and non-clinical experts and support staff, who revolutionise working methods in the healthcare industry.

It is our people who make DMC Healthcare what it is today, and we are extremely proud of the achievements of our staff. At DMC, our clinicians and administrators feel supported and empowered through our range of learning resources and our team, to offer opportunities for growth.

• Gain valuable experience and develop your finance and data analysis skills.
• 20 days of annual leave, in addition to bank holidays. Increasing with length of service.
• Access to NHS Discount.

You will be supported by, and work with, a diverse multi-skilled professional team of clinical and non-clinical individuals. In return we offer flexible working, family friendly policies, career progression within an expanding organisation, a competitive salary and benefits package.

DMC Healthcare is a leading independent provider of primary care, consultant-led dermatology, radiology reporting, in-sourced routine endoscopy services and MSK community services to the NHS.

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to achieve healthier outcomes.

Firmly rooted in the NHS and dedicated to excellent patient care for nearly 55 years, DMC Healthcare currently works with 30+ NHS organisations and other partners, treating over 100,000 patients each year.

With NHS waiting list pressures, workforce shortages and unprecedented demand, we want to help. We support capacity deficits with a firm eye on quality and robust clinical governance.

Find out more: https://dmchealthcare.co.uk