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Management Accountant (LW)
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Management Accountant
An opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Fife Finance Directorate as a Management Accountant. This Band 5 role will provide financial support, analysis, and advice to budget holders and managers across Corporate Services.
The postholder will support effective management of revenue through high-quality financial information, budget monitoring, forecasting, and financial management. The role will contribute to financial balance, value for money, and the effective stewardship of public funds.
The Role
Working within the Financial Management Team and reporting to the Head of Finance - Reporting & Analysis. You will work closely with operational managers, clinicians, project teams, and finance colleagues to support informed decision-making and delivery of organisational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide financial management and coordination for designated projects, ensuring schemes are appropriately costed and managed within available funding.
- Prepare accurate and timely financial reports.
- Support budget holders to understand financial performance, forecasts, risks, and required corrective action.
- Contribute to financial recovery, efficiency, and sustainability programmes and provide advice at relevant meetings.
About You
- You will have an HND in Accounting or a related subject, or significant demonstrable equivalent experience.
- You will bring relevant experience from a complex organisation, with demonstrable experience in management accounting.
- You will have strong numerical and analytical skills, excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to explain complex financial information clearly to finance and non-finance audiences.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex financial information and make sound recommendations.
- Good organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet reporting deadlines.
- Ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate while building positive working relationships.
- Excellent report-writing skills and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and experience of financial reporting systems.
- Motivation, resilience, initiative, and commitment to continuous improvement.
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Why Join NHS Fife?
This role offers the opportunity to develop broad experience in financial management within a large and complex NHS organisation. You will join a Financial Management Team that supports effective planning, robust financial governance, and delivery of value for money across NHS Fife.
If you have the technical skills, judgement, and motivation to support high-quality financial management, we would welcome your application.
For informal enquiries, please contact Caroline Leitch, Head of Finance e-mail caroline.leitch@nhs.scot
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website.
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