Management Accountant

Cddft; Tees Valley; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Management Accountant to join our Financial Management team. The role provides financial support and guidance to the organisation and helps deliver the department's financial strategy.

You will work in a small team of five, offering financial management and business advice to the Clinical Care Group, with opportunities for development and career progression within the NHS.

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS finance function.
• Experience in a finance function within the NHS is desirable.
• Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification.
• Minimum of 5 GCSEs / O Levels including Maths and English.

Responsibilities

• Prepare / distribute monthly clinical care groups / corporates financial reports with support of the Senior Management Accountant.
• Input into the Oracle Financial Management System (journals, budgets and data from feeder systems).
• Provide information to identify and interpret variances from budget.
• Assist with annual budgets to reflect service requirements.
• Represent the department in internal finance discussions with senior staff.
• Ensure income is correctly identified and invoices are raised promptly.

Skills

Team player

Work under pressure

Initiative

Flexible

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

GCSEs including Maths & English

Professional accountancy qualification in progress

Tools

Oracle Finance Ledger

Excel

Word

Job description

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Management Accountant

The closing date is 26 October 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a suitablyexperienced and motivated Management Accountant to join our successful teamwithin the award winning, Financial Management function at County Durham andDarlington NHS Foundation Trust.

The role is a key part of our finance team providingfinancial support and guidance to the organisation and supporting the financialstrategy of the department. We are seeking an enthusiastic individual who ispassionate about what they do in order to support delivering the best care forpatients.

In return we will offer you a warm and welcoming environmentwhere you will be fully supported.

We operate an agile working policy, whereby, the team arebased on site for a proportion of the week with the option to work at home for2 days per week alongside a flexible working policy, enabling flexible startand finish times.

This role is positioned to enable excellent developmentaland career progression opportunities

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work within a smaller team of 5people, providing comprehensive financial management and business adviceservice to Clinical Care Group encompassing:

• 1. Budgetarycontrol
• 2. Financialadvice and support
• 3. Monthly reporting

About us

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

Over reliance onAI-generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant's chances ofsuccess.

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Job responsibilities

Toprepare / distribute monthly clinical care groups / corporates financialreports with the support of the Senior Management Accountant.

To inputinto the Oracle Financial Management System (I.e. Journals, budgets and datafrom feeder systems (Payroll/Stock/Debtors/Creditors)

Toprovide information and support to allow identification and interpretation ofvariances from budget. Assisting the provision of monthly commentaries on thekey financial issues for the Senior Management Accountant to ensure any trendsare identified.

Assiststhe Senior Management Accountant / Associate Care Group / Deputy CorporateAccountant in the preparation of annual budgets, ensuring that budgets reflectservice requirements.

Representthe department at internal finance discussions with the support of more seniorfinance staff as required with senior grade Healthcare Professionals tocollect/clarify financial information.

Helpsensure all Income is accurately identified and invoices are raised in a timelymanner.

Liaisewith Financial Services to ensure all income and expenditure is correctlycoded.

Maintainingthe control and accuracy of budgets as directed by the Senior ManagementAccountant / Associate Care Group / Deputy Corporate Accountant ensuring thatbudgetary controls are reconciled and balanced off on a monthly basis.

Toprovide ad-hoc costing information as requested by budget managers

Contributeto and support the development and improvement of financial procedures to driveefficiency and quality.

To workas part of the overall financial management department and to develop closeworking relationships with other Accountants.

Todevelop effective working relationships, providing advice and answeringfinancial queries for key personal of various levels of seniority workingwithin the Trust.

Assist inthe production of working papers where required to the Trusts statutory annualaccounts.

To ensurethat departmental standards and agreed deadlines are met.

Todeputise for the Senior Management Accountant as required.

Toperform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time.

Person Specification

Special Requirements

• Good team player with ability to work collaboratively to achieve shared objectives.
• Ability to work under pressure, achieving tight and often conflicting deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative with minimum of supervision.
• Flexible and responsive.
• Ability to continuously reassess and strive to improve working practices to improve efficiency and performance in self & others.

Experience

• Experience within a finance function.
• Experience of working within NHS finance.

Special Skills & Knowledge

• The ability to provide and receive complex financial information to/from financial and non-financial staff orally, in writing or electronically in a professional manner.
• Good computer skills with experience of the Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word.
• The ability to input into and interrogate the Finance General Ledger to obtain standard and ad hoc reports.
• Has the ability to quickly learn new skills and tasks as and when required.
• Ability to work to all routine and ad hoc deadlines.
• Ability to identify and act to remedy circumstances that mean a deadline is at risk.
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to provide training, advise and review the work of more junior team members.
• Must have good analytical skills.
• Possesses basic organisational skills.
• Has an appreciation of the NHS finance regime.
• Experience of Oracle Finance Ledger system.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs / O Levels (A* - C) including Maths and English.
• Demonstrates a track record of academic achievement or has experience of working within a finance function.
• Experience of working within an NHS finance function.
• Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification.

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.

Employer name

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust