Directorate Management Accountant

The Finance Team has over 50 members of staff working in Financial Accounts, Management Accounts and Contracting across the Bedford and Luton Sites. It is a great place to work where we support learning and development of our staff. We have an excellent track record of supporting, developing and promoting our staff internally.

We are also proud to hold the following employer accreditations

Level 3 accredited One NHS Finance employer

ACCA Approved Employer Programme

CIMA Premier Partner

AAT Employer Scheme

Main responsibilities include

To produce timely and accurate financial statements for Directorates on a monthly basis.

To support budget holders in managing their financial position such that the Trust is able to achieve its financial targets. This will include providing complex and sensitive information, and will require skills of negotiation and persuasion.

To support negotiations with NHS and external organisations over cost / service issues.

To report Directorates financial position to the Finance Manager (FM) to allow aggregation of the Trusts financial position on a timely monthly basis.

To assist in the Directorates procurement strategy to minimise cost incurred.

To analyse complex financial trends involving many streams of data and forecast financial expenditure, using own initiative to make appropriate assumptions.

To assist senior financial managers & clinicians with financial decision making and risk mitigation through in depth analysis of activity / income.

To prepare annual Directorate budgets for service planning, supporting budget holders through the budget setting process.

To monitor & control budgetary changes throughout the year for relevant Directorates and to propose changes to the control procedures which impact on other team members areas.

To provide ad hoc support to FM, Director of Finance & other team members in planning projects that impact across the department and the organisation.

To help co-ordinate work of other staff members in section and to allocate and check the work to junior staff members and to deliver appropriate training to new / junior staff members.

Review of activity and income on a monthly basis, to ensure activity is recorded and reflected on SLR.

Costing for business cases, including for activity, income and expenditure.