Management Accountant | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Management Accountant to join their team in Huntingdon. This full-time role involves producing monthly management accounts, supporting budget management, and analyzing financial information. The successful candidate should have accounting experience and communicate effectively with non-finance colleagues. Flexible, hybrid working options are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and certification opportunities

Qualifications

• Able to analyze and communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues.
• Demonstrated breadth of accounting experience.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce timely monthly management accounts.
• Conduct forecasting and variance analysis.
• Maintain contact with budget managers.

Skills

Analysis and communication of financial information

Accounting experience

Budget management

Job description

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Management Accountant to join the finance team based in Huntingdon.

We are a committed and focused team who pride ourselves on delivering an excellent standard of financial support and advice to both internal and external partners.

We offer flexible, hybrid working & are very focused on developing our own staff with various routes for training & certification available to candidates.

The post will be full time supporting the Older People's and Adult Community clinical directorate. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate a wide breadth of accounting experience and will show strong communication skills, including the ability to analyse, understand and communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues.

Main duties will include the timely production of monthly management accounts, forecasting, variance analysis, assisting in the costing of new service developments, and supporting the delivery of cost improvement plans.

The role also requires the post holder to maintain regular contact with budget managers, enabling them to accurately report and forecast financial information.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

Production of timely, accurate and reliable financial information in line with month and year end timetables.

Establish effective working relationships with budget holders, ensuring understanding and ownership of financial issues pertinent to their services.

Supporting the FM in budget-setting and maintenance of a defined portfolio of services.

Support the Delivering Best Value programme reporting for a defined portfolio of services.

Supporting the FM with service costings and cost benefit analysis, and evaluation of business cases.

Please see attached JD/PS for a comprehensive list of the main responsibilities for the role.


This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Aug 2025