Management Accounts Assistant

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Redhill is offering a development role in their Financial Management team. This position is ideal for individuals pursuing a finance or business degree and will involve working closely with senior accountants to provide financial reports and support services. Responsibilities include financial planning, supporting clinical divisions, and engaging in project work to improve performance. The salary ranges from £27,485 to £30,162 per annum with additional allowances.

Qualifications

• Education in a finance discipline or actively working towards a financial qualification.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally.
• Ability to work independently with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial management service including planning and reporting.
• Support clinical divisions in maintaining high-quality services.
• Undertake project work to enhance performance.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Confident self-starter

Education

Education in finance discipline

Job description

The Financial Management team have an opportunity for a development role for individuals who would like to progress in a management accounts career.

This role would also suit a University placement on a fixed term contract who is studying a finance/business degree.

You will be an integral part of the Management Accounts team. The role will entail working closely with the Senior Management Accountant in providing detailed monthly reporting and supporting the divisions in developing services by preparing concise, timely and accurate reports on a variety of financial topics.

Main Duties are:

• A supporting role in providing a comprehensive, financial management service (planning, reporting, and financial analysis) to ensure that financial viability is sustained and targets are achieved.
• Supporting clinical divisions in providing a safe, high quality, sustainable service.
• Undertaking project work to help drive improved performance in the divisions.

The Candidates Should Be:

• An education in a finance discipline or working towards a financial qualification.
• An excellent communicator - both in writing and verbally.
• A confident self-starter who can work on their own initiative.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation's top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey

Job responsibilities

For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

• Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
• A complete and accurate application
• Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
• Evidence of essential experience for role
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
• Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
• Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

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.

£27,485 to £30,162 a yearper annum plus high cost allowance