Management Accountant

Your World Recruitment Ltd; Lisburn; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Management Accountant for a temporary position in Lisburn. The role involves providing financial support, managing budgets, and ensuring accurate reporting. Candidates should be CCAB qualified with a minimum of three years' experience in financial management and budgetary control. Competitive pay rates of up to £28 per hour are offered.

Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant financial management experience.
• Experience in budgetary control preparation and management accounting.
• Experience in business case production.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to Senior Managers and budget holders.
• Assist in capital reporting and budget setting.
• Ensure budget holders receive accurate financial information.

Skills

Financial management

Stakeholder engagement

Budgetary control

Complex financial analysis

Education

CCAB qualified Accountant

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Management Accountant - Band 7

Location: Belfast

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Expected to last 6 months with possible extension

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: Up to £26 - 28 per hour PAYE inclusive of holiday pay

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm

Sector: Healthcare

Based: Office / Hospital

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Projects and Business Cases

• To be responsible for providing a range of financial support to Senior Managers and budget holders in order to achieve effective financial management.
• To be responsible for the development of business cases and service development proposals by providing costing information and complex financial analysis to effectively manage projects.
• To provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance to Senior Managers and budget holders.
• To investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
• To manage a risk tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.
• To contribute to the strategic planning of the Trust, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
• To co-ordinate and participate in relevant internal and external working groups, and provide advice, expertise and support where requested.
• To liaise with internal and external audit and ensure that any recommendations are considered and where agreed, implemented.

Financial Strategy/Financial Planning and Reporting

• To contribute to capital reporting, including responsibility for the management and monitoring of the Trust's asset acquisition programme in accordance with the Trust's financial policies and procedures.
• To liaise with the Financial Accounting Function as appropriate to ensure that all relevant service and budgetary agreements, adjustments and findings for other service developments are accurately reflected within Directorates in order to maintain accurate financial reporting and effective financial control.
• To assist with the provision of expert analysis, interpretation and evaluation of financial and non financial data.
• To assist in the preparation of Trust Monitoring Returns, Financial Plans and Monthly Financial Position.
• To contribute to the development and implementation of accounting and financial policies and procedures which impact across the Trust.

Budget Setting and Control

• To assist with the annual budget setting process, within agreed guidelines and timelines and to ensure that they reflect the Trust's Financial Strategy.
• To be responsible for budget setting, monitoring and reporting using Budgetary and General Ledger Systems.
• To support the Assistant Director of Finance in the early identification of threats to the financial stability of the Trust by highlighting risks within Directorates and agree rectification measures to ensure breakeven is achieved.

Support Services to Budget Holders

• To assist budget holders review financial performance and where necessary instigate further investigation to ensure remedial action is implemented in order to achieve balanced budgets.
• To ensure all budget holders are provided with accurate and meaningful financial information to enable them to manage their service within available resources including as necessary option appraisals and service development proposals.
• To assist in the provision of budgetary control training for budget holders and other non finance managers.
• To participate in the review of management information needs of both internal and external key users and contribute to the development and improvement of management information to match internal and external user needs.

Essential Criteria

• CCAB qualified Accountant and 3 years relevant financial management experience.
• Have a minimum of one year's experience of budgetary control and the preparation of management accounting information and reports.
• Have a minimum of one year's experience in business case production.
• Demonstrate experience of engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation, to achieve successful financial management outcomes.
• Have an in depth working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications or equivalent in order to produce, analyse and present complex financial information