Senior CSU Accountant

NHS; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Senior CSU Accountant to offer financial support and advice to clinical and non-clinical units. The ideal candidate will have a CCAB or CIMA qualification and substantial financial management experience, especially within the NHS. This position provides opportunities for professional development and offers a hybrid working model, balancing office and home work environments. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership and confident communication skills.
• Experience in financial management and accounting.
• Previous work experience within the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and advice to managers and clinicians.
• Assist in developing plans to achieve financial targets.
• Monitor and report on financial actions and outcomes.
• Support the production and maintenance of financial forecasts.

Skills

Effective stakeholder management

Commitment to business understanding

Change and improvement support

Confident communication skills

Education

Full Professional Accountancy qualification (CCAB or CIMA qualified)

5 O levels/GCSEs including Maths and English

Job description

Wehave a fantastic opportunity to join our award-winning Team as a Senior CSUAccountant. This is a key position which supports clinical and non-clinicalservice units, providing financial information and advice, working inpartnership with financial and non-financial colleagues from within and outsideof the organisation.

Thereare 2 roles currently vacant which support Clinical Service Units to providefinancial management support and advice to the clinical management team andbudget holders to deliver financial targets and make best use of resources.

Aspart of a wider team and with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, this roleprovides exposure to a varied agenda, with a clear focus on putting the patientat the centre of everything we do.

Thispost will provide significant opportunities for personal and professionaldevelopment within a supportive team which is committed to being highperforming and inclusive.

Main duties of the job

Theprimary purpose of the Senior CSU Accountant Job is to provide financialsupport and advice to managers and clinicians in a number of business units, inorder to help them deliver their financial responsibilities and achievesustainable financial improvement through:

Assisting them in developing plans tomeet savings targets.

Monitoring and reporting on theresults of intended actions.

Communicating the Trusts financialstrategies and policies and how the actions of the business unit impact uponit.

Providing accurate and timelyfinancial analysis and information to support their understanding of currentperformance and how this can be improved, creating financial models asappropriate.

Supporting the production andmaintenance of financial forecasts and highlighting associated risks.

Using available business intelligenceand performance data including benchmarking to identify opportunities for wastereduction and the effective and efficient management of resources.

The financial assessment of businesscases for service change.

Helping to ensure that theappropriate financial governance and grip and control mechanisms exist throughthe business unit.

About us

TheFinance Teams mission statement is to be the best provider of finance,procurement and planning services to support the delivery of patient care inthe Leeds Way.

TheLeeds Way values are what make this organisation special, we see this asstrength, as well as a responsibility, and we live these values within theFinance team. Our five values which guide all our actions and endeavours are:

Accountable

Empowered

TheFinance Department is based at St James University Hospital and comprisesseveral teams working together: Financial Accounting, Financial Management,Income, Costing, Payroll, Supplies.

Thepost is based at Trust Headquarters, and we offer hybrid working whichincludes a combination of office and home working LTHT is an inclusiveorganisation, committed to the health and wellbeing of its staff and as aFinance Team we strongly embody these as part of our everyday culture.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Theperson we are looking for will be a fully Qualified CCAB or ACMA Accountant.Main duties include:

Supportingthe organisation in developing plans to make best use of resources andachieve financial targets through using available business intelligence.

Providingaccurate and timely financial analysis and information to support theunderstanding of current performance and how this can be improved, creatingfinancial models as appropriate.

Supportingthe production and maintenance of financial forecasts and highlightingassociated risks.

Modellingthe impact of internal and external policy and activity changes on the Trustsfinancial position, understanding financial risks and opportunities forgrowth.

Supportingcolleagues in developing strategy and business cases, modelling financialimpact over the long term.

Buildingrelationships with key external stakeholders, developing partnerships whichwill support the Trusts objectives.

Pleaserefer to the job description and person specification to ensure that you havethe necessary skills and experience to apply for this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full Professional Accountancy qualification (CCAB or CIMA qualified)
• 5 O levels/GCSEs to include Maths and English

Skills & behaviours

• Demonstration of effective stakeholder management, with an ongoing commitment to building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and collaborations
• Commitment to understanding and knowing the business
• Commitment to supporting change and improvement, able to make connections and link pieces of work to maximise the achievement of multiple objectives
• Ability to secure engagement with well-developed leadership and confident communication skills, willing to challenge and be challenged

Experience

• Substantial financial management experience which has included experience of a range of accounting areas and use of financial systems
• Leading successful projects or work-streams and achieving change
• Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information, including the delivery of formal presentations and leading financial discussions at meetings
• Experience of working within the NHS
• Staff management and development

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.