Senior Management Accountant

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton is seeking a Senior Management Accountant to support Estates Services and the broader finance team, delivering high quality financial information and reporting.

Key duties include preparing expenditure, income, payroll and budget journals, analysing variances with service leads, producing year-end forecasts, assisting with monthly reconciliations, and providing costings and benchmarking data to enable informed

Responsibilities

• Preparation of expenditure, income, payroll and budget journals in line with procedures.
• Identify, analyse, investigate and resolve variances with service leads.
• Produce year end forecasts and explain movements in forecasts.
• Assist with monthly reconciliations of income and expenditure.
• Undertake costing exercises and maternity calculations.
• Provide financial support to services and budget manager meetings.
• Produce finance reports and support with costing allocations and benchmarking data.
• Support with service line reporting and divisional allocations.
• Develop relationships with budget managers and finance colleagues.
• Produce robust working papers for audit when required.

Job description

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit into the role of Senior Management Accountant. This is a key role supporting the Estates Services and within the broader finance team and operates within the financial management team supporting the functioning and delivery of high quality financial information and reporting.

• Preparation of expenditure, income, payroll and budget journals, ensuring that all information is processed in accordance with procedures and accounting standards.
• Identify, analyse, investigate and work with service leads to resolve variances.
• Produce year end forecasts and update regularly in discussion with budget manager and be able to explain movements in forecasted positions.
• Assist the relevant services in the overall reconciliation of the Trust`s income and expenditure position on a monthly basis.
• Undertake costing exercises, including skill mix changes, maternity calculations.
• Provide financial support to services (including budget manager meetings), ensuring that all queries are investigated and either resolved or referred to the appropriate person.
• Produce finance reports where required in line with the agreed timetable.
• Provide support to finance and operational colleagues with costing allocations and benchmarking data as required within agreed timetable.
• Provide support with service line reporting and divisional allocations.
• Responsible for production of robust working papers for audit when required.
• Develop productive ongoing relationships with relevant budget manager, finance colleagues and other internal and external stakeholders. Be able to efficiently resolve issues using negotiation and persuasive skills to achieve required results.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person`s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson`s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence