Senior Assistant CSU Accountant (XN06)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Senior Assistant CSU Accountant to enhance financial management within a dynamic team. This role involves collaborating with clinical and corporate departments to drive sound financial decision-making and budget planning. The successful candidate will engage in financial analysis, develop business cases, and contribute to sustainable financial improvements. Join a supportive environment dedicated to excellence in healthcare services, where your efforts will directly impact patient care and service delivery. This is a unique opportunity to grow professionally while making a meaningful difference in the NHS.

Qualifications

• Strong financial management and accounting experience required.
• Education equivalent to a postgraduate diploma in accountancy is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support financial advice to managers and clinicians across business units.
• Provide accurate financial reports and assist in budget setting.

Skills

Financial management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Postgraduate diploma level of a professional accountancy qualification

5 GCSEs including Maths and English

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Finance software

Job description

Job summary

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a highly motivated and proactive Senior Assistant CSU Accountant to join our high performing Management Accounting Team supporting the Leeds Children's Hospital CSU.

This is a key role in providing excellent financial management and leadership skills, working closely with both clinical and corporate departments to ensure sound financial decision-making. You will play a vital part in budget planning, financial analysis, and reporting in a fast-paced and rewarding environment.

What We're Looking For:

1. A passionate and enthusiastic finance professional who wants to make a difference.
2. Strong financial management and accounting experience.
3. A team player with a proactive and resilient approach.
4. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
5. Ability to communicate complex financial information effectively.
6. A relevant accounting qualification (or working towards one) is desirable.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, helping to shape service delivery and make a real impact in the challenging financial environment of the NHS.

Expected Shortlisting Date: 28/04/2025
Planned Interview Date: 14/05/2025

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the Senior Assistant CSU Accountant role is to:

1. Support the Senior CSU Accountant in providing financial support and advice to managers and clinicians in a number of business units.
2. With support from senior staff, promote the active engagement of business units in delivering sustainable financial improvement.
3. Assist both managers and clinicians in developing plans to meet savings targets.
4. Monitor and report on the results of intended actions.
5. Communicate the Trust's financial strategies and policies and how their actions impact upon it.
6. Provide financial analysis and information to support their understanding of current performance and how this can be improved.
7. Develop business cases for service change.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the country currently rated Good by the CQC. Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and beyond. We also play an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students and are a centre of world-class research and pioneering new treatments.

Our vision is to be the best for specialist and integrated care. Our staff helped to define the values and behaviours that we should work to so that we can achieve this vision. This has become known as The Leeds Way, and forms the foundation of our culture, our ethos and how we work every day. These values are:

1. We are patient-centred;
2. We are fair;
3. We are collaborative;
4. We are accountable;
5. We are empowered.

Our Trust has a strong track record of financial performance.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

1. Business planning, business cases and value for money.
2. Clearly communicate to the business unit management team the Trust's financial strategy and policies with support from their Senior CSU Accountant.
3. With direction from the Senior CSU Accountant, provide financial support to managers in developing and reviewing expenditure, income and activity plans to meet financial and other targets that are in accordance with the Trust strategy.
4. Provide accurate, timely and comprehensive financial reports for the business units. Develop appropriate non-financial indicators to support understanding of the financial position. Support the business unit management team in delivering sustainable performance improvement.
5. Assist in the setting of budgets and the development of annual and longer-term financial plans in accordance with the Trust's guidelines and timetable.
6. Regularly provide training to staff throughout the Finance Team and other closely associated functions.
7. Ensure that day to day work is carried out in line with the agreed policies and procedures and quality standards and that appropriate financial controls are met.
8. Support in developing improved ways of reporting information to business units, the Board and external customers making best use of the reporting tools available, for example the financial ledger and spreadsheets.

Person Specification

Other Criteria

Essential

• The ability to analyse and interpret very detailed financial information and perform complex calculations and reconciliations in an environment of ever-changing priorities and demands.

Qualifications

Essential

• Education and knowledge equivalent to the postgraduate diploma level of a professional accountancy qualification.
• 5 GCSE Grade 4-9 (old system A*-C) or equivalent, to include Maths and English.

Desirable

• Part qualified status (of CCAB or CIMA).
• AAT qualified or equivalent.

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

• A confident, pleasant approach with the ability to build excellent working relationships and to engage with a wide range of colleagues both internal and external confidently and diplomatically.
• A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately.
• Commitment to taking responsibility and facilitating the successful achievement of desired outcomes, facing competing challenges in a calm manner and coordinating input from a number of sources.
• A commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal and professional development.
• Ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition.
• Ability to handle confidential, sensitive and contentious information appropriately.

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel.
• Specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures.
• Detailed understanding of financial ledgers and finance software business tools and how to use these to produce bespoke reports and analysis.
• The provision of management accounting information and advice to managers and other staff.
• Substantial experience of working in an office environment, within a finance discipline which has included experience of a range of accounting areas and financial systems.

Desirable

• Experience of working in finance within the NHS.

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

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