Senior Financial Accountant

Health Education and Improvement Wales; Nantgarw; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health body in Wales is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to support their financial services. You will manage financial systems, prepare accounts, and provide critical reporting for a £370m NHS organization. The ideal candidate should be CCAB qualified with excellent analytical skills and experience in a finance role. Join a collaborative team focused on improving health and social care in Wales.

Qualifications

• Proven ability of preparing financial accounts in line with legal requirements.
• Significant experience managing and motivating staff.
• Experience producing financial and management information for senior management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of year-end accounts and support working papers.
• Produce an accurate monthly statement of financial position.
• Manage cash-flow forecasts and month-end reconciliation processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Numerical skills

Excel expertise

Education

CCAB Qualified

Tools

Finance/Digital systems

Job description

The Senior Financial Accountant will be a key post supporting the Head of Financial Accounts in the provision of high-quality financial services across HEIW. The position sits in the Financial Accounts team within the Finance, Planning, Performance and National Programmes Directorate.

This role provides the core statutory accounting functions and manages key financial systems and processes for the organisation. It includes responsibilities that are concerned with financial control procedures and policies, governance and legislative requirements, financial transactions, systems and external statutory reporting. This role will require excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. The post holder will need to demonstrate a high level of technical accounting knowledge and effective training and influencing skills.

For more information, please contact:

Head of Financial Accounting

Main duties of the job

Working within a £370m NHS organisation, the key elements of the post include leading on the preparation of the year end accounts and supporting working papers, producing an accurate monthly statement of financial position, producing cash-flow forecasts, supporting the month-end procedures to close down the financial systems and lead on the month end reconciliation processes.

About us

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,

- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,

- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,

- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,

- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

• CCAB Qualified
• Commitment to and evidence of continued professional development within a large and complex organisation.
• Up to date knowledge of latest accounting standards and recommendations

Experience

• Proven ability of preparing financial accounts in line with legal requirements and agreed timetables with experience of producing good quality year-end accounts and working papers
• Significant experience and knowledge across a range of Finance/Digital systems.
• Experience in producing a wide range of financial and management information, reports and analyses to senior management and executive level teams.
• Proven experience in managing and motivating staff.
• Knowledge of NHS Financial Policies and Procedures across the finance discipline.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining financial systems and developing new systems that are sound, effective, efficient and automated.

Skills & Attributes

• Highly developed analytical interpretational and comparative skills capable of dealing with highly complex sensitive information to support rational decision making.
• Excellent written and oral communication, and presentation skills with an ability to explain highly complex issues to both a finance and non-finance audience.
• Excellent Analytical and Numerical Skills. Expertise in advanced financial modelling using spread sheets, and proven experience of advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with staff at all levels and contribute in team environment and its shared vision.

Other

• Ability to work hours flexibly.
• Ability to speak Welsh

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.