Senior Financial Accountant

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

Job summary

A public health organization in Wales is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to support the Head of Financial Accounts. Responsibilities include preparing year-end accounts, producing monthly financial statements, and managing financial systems. Candidates need a high level of technical accounting knowledge and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Corporate induction and welcome itinerary

Compassionate leadership

Opportunity to impact health and social care

Qualifications

• High level of technical accounting knowledge required.
• Effective training and influencing skills needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the preparation of the year end accounts.
• Produce an accurate monthly statement of financial position.
• Produce cash-flow forecasts.
• Support month-end procedures to close down the financial systems.
• Lead on month-end reconciliation processes.
• Provide core statutory accounting functions.
• Contribute to financial control procedures and governance.
• Handle financial transactions and external statutory reporting.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Skills

Technical accounting knowledge

Effective training skills

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

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. Working within a £370m NHS organisation, the post includes 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 leading the month end reconciliation processes.

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

About HEIW

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.

Values

• 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
• compassionate leadership
• 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?

Responsibilities

• Lead on the preparation of the year end accounts and supporting working papers
• Produce an accurate monthly statement of financial position
• Produce cash-flow forecasts
• Support month-end procedures to close down the financial systems
• Lead on month-end reconciliation processes
• Provide core statutory accounting functions and manage key financial systems and processes
• Contribute to financial control procedures, governance and legislative compliance
• Handle financial transactions, systems and external statutory reporting
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and maintain high technical accounting standards

Qualifications

• High level of technical accounting knowledge
• Effective training and influencing skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication