University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
Senior Management Accountant
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Job Overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
This is a great opportunity to join our subsidiary finance team within a large, high-performing acute Foundation Trust group.
As Senior Management Accountant you will play an important role in budget setting, monthly reporting, annual audit, CIP delivery, and costings to support business cases. You will work closely with the rest of the Subsidiary finance team and provide financial support to budget managers and the wider UHS teams.
Working for our organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS, we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
What we're looking for:
The successful candidate will be qualified in a recognised professional accountancy qualification or an equivalent level of knowledge, skills and experience in financial management with significant experience in a finance environment, including management accounting.
You will know about designing advanced spreadsheets and databases and have experience in financial project management/financial appraisal,
and forecasting.
The work will require you to work independently with senior staff across a number of disciplines, so the ability to communicate effectively and professionally is essential.
The successful applicant will have a flexible approach and enjoy working in a fast-paced setting where they'll meet a different challenge every day.
What You'll Do
As a core member of the finance subsidiary team, you will:
- Support the Subsidiary Finance Manager with the development of financial programmes and financial strategy for the Subsidiaries.
- Provide comprehensive, proactive financial management support to the subsidiaries.
- Ensure all statutory and legal requirements for the Companies Act 2006 and for subsidiaries of NHS Trusts are met.
- Ensure that the Group accounts, VAT and all inter-company recharges are managed correctly.
- Establish and maintain a sound financial base to support the financial implications of service changes.
- Manage, on a day-to-day basis, other members within the Subsidiary Accounting team.
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Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and expertise across a range of accounting areas acquired through professional accountancy qualifications (and membership) such as Certificate Level/Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or working towards a CCAB accountancy qualification or educated to degree level with an equivalent level of knowledge and experience gained in a finance role.
- Detailed understanding of financial systems and general ledger transactions and reporting.
- Experience supervising a team.
- Detailed understanding of budgetary control processes.
- Understanding of financial information systems and ability to extract information in a form to support budget managers
- Comfortable with IT and able to use spreadsheet modelling packages.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in an NHS finance environment.
- Experience with Oracle IT system.
- Line management experience.
- Able to work from home effectively / flexibly.
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