Management Accountant - Bank

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Management Accountant to join the finance team, providing robust management information to support financial viability and target achievement. You will lead the budgeting process, produce integrated reports, and forecast performance while ensuring controls and accuracy across divisions.

The role emphasizes proactive leadership, analytical skills, and collaboration with clinical and managerial colleagues to drive financial performance

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant status or substantial accounting experience.
• Extensive experience in financial management roles within complex environments.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development or CPD participation.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the wider finance function with a proactive approach.
• Lead the preparation and agreement of annual budgets for specified divisions and maintain records of budget movements.
• Produce integrated financial and activity reports with quality assurance controls.
• Monitor and forecast monthly financial performance using activity statistics and management accounting techniques.
• Investigate variances and provide analytical reports to budget holders or the Divisional Finance Partner.

Skills

Qualified Accountant or significant…

Financial management experience

Continued professional development

Education

Degree or Masters

Job description

Job summary

DSFS Ltd are looking to recruit into the position of Management Accountant, providing support to our financial management team on a Zero Hour bank worker agreement.

A key member of the finance team with responsibility for ensuring all processes and procedures are in place to provide the Division with relevant, accurate and timely management information concerning financial and activity performance to support with financial viability and achievement of targets.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Provisional Interview Date TBC

Main duties of the job

• Provide leadership to the wider finance function including a proactive approach.
• Manage the preparation and agreement of annual budgets for specified divisions and maintain accurate records of all budget setting and budget movements.
• Manage the preparation and provision of accurate and timely information by the production of integrated financial and activity reports. Ensure quality assurance controls are in place for key outputs.
• Responsible for the monitoring and forecasting of financial performance on a monthly basis, incorporating the use of activity statistics where appropriate, and by applying relevant management accounting techniques.
• Proactively investigate variances and provide analytical reports on areas specifically requested by the Divisional Finance Partner or budget holder/manager.

About us

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. These documents contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. These documents contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Qualified Accountant or significant relevant accounting experience
• Significant experience in a financial management role.
• Evidence of on-going professional or personal development; e.g. Continuing Professional Development

Desirable

• oDegree or Masters
• oEvidence of leadership development

Experience

Essential

• Experience at a senior level in a complex financial environment.
• Management Accounting Experience.
• Experience of working effectively in a team
• Track record of financial and non- financial achievements
• Staff management experience

Desirable

• NHS provider or commissioner experience
• Experience of working with a Patient Level Information Costing System.
• NHS Contracting experience.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills as required to interact regularly with senior colleagues inside and outside the organisation
• Ability to influence decision making
• Strong communication skills both verbal and in writing
• Able to engage, influence and hold the respect of a wide range of managers and clinicians.
• Able to look at the big picture as well as the detail.
• Ability to convey complex finance information and issues in an easily understood manner
• A committed, pro-active individual able to work on their own initiative and prioritise workloads.
• Responsive to change and innovation
• Ability to work to challenging deadlines effectively
• Good IT skills

Desirable

• Understanding of NHS national reforms and policies
• Awareness of the current developing areas within commissioning
• Working knowledge of the NHS National Tariff Payment System

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Team Worker
• Proactive
• Motivated to work in the NHS
• Caring
• Confident with a positive attitude.
• Professional work approach

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 details

Employer name

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Calow

Chesterfield

S44 5BL

United Kingdom