Management Accountant

East London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks a Management Accountant to join their Finance team. The role involves supporting financial management for specialist services. Candidates should have a professional accountancy qualification, and experience with large scale general ledger systems. This position offers opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support up to £10,000

Qualifications

• Experience of providing accounting support to budget managers.
• Experience of large-scale general ledger systems.
• Understanding of the NHS financial regime.

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Business Partner with financial management.
• Provide information, analysis, and advice to budget managers.

Skills

Financial data communication

Deadline management

Interpersonal skills

Microsoft Excel

Decision-making

Education

Professional accountancy qualification Certificate level

Degree level or equivalent combination of short courses and experience

Tools

Oracle financials

Large scale general ledger systems

Job description

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job overview

An exciting Management Accountant opportunity has opened up within the Finance team here at ELFT. This role is based in London and the post holder will be looking after Specialist Services and Specialist Children and Young Peoples' Services in the Community.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Finance Business Partner in the provision of comprehensive Financial Management service to Directorates. The post-holder will take direct responsibility for the provision of information, analysis and advice to a range of budget managers.

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.

There will be a 30 minutes excel test on the interview day.

Person specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential criteria

• Professional accountancy qualification Certificate level
• Degree level of equivalent combination of short courses and experience

Desirable criteria

• Part Qualified CCAB

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of providing accounting support to budget managers
• Experience of large scale general ledger systems

Desirable criteria

• Oracle financials or similar package
• NHS Management Accounts experience
• Some experience of costing and/or preparation of Business Cases.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Skills and Abilities
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to make decisions
• Good oral and written presentation skills
• Able to translate and effectively communicate financial data to non finance staff
• Computer literate, including strong Microsoft Excel and Word skill
• Good interpersonal skills to deal with senior managers and clinicians and other colleagues
• Able to identify and interpret key performance issues from raw data

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Understanding of the NHS financial regime

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other reasons to apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

What Next?

If you like the sound of ELFT, don't waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same..

If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 41.6KB)
• ELFT at a glance (PDF, 151.0KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 7.1MB)
• ELFT Strategy (PDF, 153.5KB)
• Trust Demographic Information (PDF, 1.5MB)

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