Senior Assistant Management Accountant | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Assistant Management Accountant, acting as a key member of the Financial Management team. The postholder will provide accurate and timely financial information and reporting to colleagues internal and external to Finance, including providing support to budget holders across the organisation.
The successful candidate will have completed their Diploma Level of CIMA/CCAB qualification or have a relevant degree in Accounting. They will have strong numeracy skills and attention to detail, alongside excellent I.T. and communication skills.
The department currently has a hybrid working policy, so the successful candidate will be required to work a minimum of 3 days a week in the office. With sites at both Southport and Knowsley.
Interview date: 18th September 2024
The Senior Assistant Management Accountant’s main duties will be to:- Ensure the provision of high quality financial information and accurate advice to budget holders and other non-finance managers.
- Develop good working relationships with budget holders, regularly meeting with them to review their financial information and provide advice.
- Assist Financial Management colleagues in ensuring income and expenditure is monitored and is recorded accurately, including monitoring variances from planned income and expenditure and resolving queries with budget holders and Finance colleagues.
- Use Excel and other software to provide financial reports and conduct financial analysis, using formulae and other functionality as required.
- Complete regular tasks accurately and in line with the monthly timetable, including where relevant internal recharges between departments and updates to the ledger to reflect an accurate financial position.
- Ensure most effective use of the Trust’s financial resources, including assisting with the annual budget setting/financial planning process by updating and reviewing information for the new financial year, including staffing information. To liaise with budget holders as part of this process, to ensure accurate information is used.
- Proactively review regular tasks within their areas of responsibility, identifying opportunities for improvements and more efficient working to support continuous improvement of the Finance function.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients.We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
- To establish and maintain strong working relationships with both key internal and external individuals to ensure effective working. The post holder will be expected to liaise with both internal departments and external bodies.
- To ensure the provision of high-quality financial advice to budget holders and other non-finance managers to enable the delivery of the Trust’s strategic, corporate financial objectives.
- To monitor financial performance against agreed budgets, analysing, reporting on variations and assisting in formulating corrective actions. Proactively support the delivery of targets by sharing good practice, identifying areas for improvement and agreeing and monitoring action plans.
- To have specialised knowledge within the division supported by the team, gained through relevant theoretical knowledge and experience of other financial areas.
- To validate output from the monthly payroll process to ensure all payments are coded correctly in accordance with the budgets. Identification and correction of errors to ensure financial data is correct.
- To contribute to the completion of statutory returns, adhering to strict timetables.
- To attend the relevant divisional and specialty business meetings on behalf of Financial Management and provide relevant financial support, advice and information.
- To maintain the integrity of the financial ledger and other financial systems to ensure that compliance with audit requirements is adhered to.
- To contribute to the formulation of the annual budget setting for the Trust and ensure pressures are reported and monitored.
- To promote effective financial management and financial control amongst the divisional management teams. To provide appropriate advice and support with the divisional structure to ensure all efforts are made to achieve financial stability, including the review and monitoring of establishment information.
- To assist in the delivery of financial awareness training to all levels of management within the Care Group. informal training will be provided to budget holders and managers in relation to financial issues on a regular basis.
- To carry out any other work as may be required to satisfy the requirements of both the finance department and Care Group.
- Responsible for the production and monitoring of timely and accurate financial information and reporting to strict deadlines, enabling the proactive management of budgets by budget holders.
- To contribute to the development of financial management information and communicate ideas and suggestions for departmental improvements to the Management Accountant(s) and Senior Management Accountant.
- To allocate work to staff members within the department and provide training within own areas of work enabling them to develop in accordance with their KSF outline. 3
- To deputise for the Management Accountant(s) as required.
- To train new and existing staff within the team, providing induction materials including accurate up to date procedure notes, demonstrating working routines and coordinating work between the Assistant Management Accountants as necessary. Education & Development
- To provide training to non-financial managers within the Trust on all matters relating to budgetary control and financial management; including effective use of information systems/reports.
Trust Profile
The Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides a full range of acute in-patient, out-patient, day case and emergency services to the local communities. The Trust is comprised of Whiston Hospital and St Helens Hospital, which lie 4 miles apart.It serves a population of approximately 364,000 in an area of mixed residential, industrial and rural character situated on the edge of Merseyside between the open countryside of Cheshire to the south and Lancashire to the north.
Both Whiston and St Helens Hospitals have undergone a program of extensive redevelopment under a PFI scheme, the total cost exceeding £300 million, completed in 2011.
The Trust was awarded Teaching Hospital status in 2008 and takes in approximately 150 undergraduates annually from University of Liverpool Faculty of Medicine, years 2-5. It is an extremely popular venue for both undergraduates and Foundation Year doctors, ensuring a succession of high quality, enthusiastic trainees.As Lead Employer, on behalf of the Mersey Deanery, the Trust is responsible for over 2,000 trainee specialty doctors based in hospitals and GP practice placements throughout Merseyside and Cheshire.
Clinical areas are supported by a comprehensive suite of IT systems including electronic case records, electronic clinical investigation requests & results, digital radiological imaging, electronic discharge summaries and digital dictation.
Whiston Hospital
This is a teaching hospital, which provides a comprehensive range of Acute Medical and Surgical services. The Emergency Department, Maternity Services, Paediatrics, Medicine for Older People, the Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Units are based on this site.There is a Critical Care Unit with ICU, HDU, CCU, and an onsite Cardiac Catheter Laboratory. The stroke consultants deliver 24/7 thrombolysis to eligible patients presenting with acute stroke, and the 30 bedded stroke ward accommodates both acute stroke patients and those with rehabilitation needs.
St Helens Hospital
The redeveloped hospital was opened in 2008 as an Ambulatory Care Centre with Intermediate Care and Day Surgery. The Rheumatology, Dermatology and Diabetes services are based on this site, with in-reach of their staff into the acute wards at Whiston Hospital.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024