Management Accountant Chorley

Job Description

Peripatetic Finance Manager

Euxton Hall Hospital - Shared Service Centre– Chorley, Lancashire

Full Time 37.5 Hours

It may also involve mentoring some Head of Finance who are new in post.

The Role

They additionally contribute ad-hoc analysis and insights as required for Cluster, Corporate, UK, or Global requirements.

In addition, the Peripatetic Finance Manager is to support the Commercial Accountants in their role, through involvement in site, Super Cluster or group wide projects and discrete tasks, as required. This may also involve carrying out audits of financial operations and devising action plans on behalf of the Commercial Accountant.

• Guide and perform operational and strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, alongside the SLT. Submit weekly forecasts, and highlight sensitivities around these through risks and opportunities.
• Active member of the Hospital SLT; contributing to areas outside of functional expertise, including on-call.
• Responsible for the production of monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliation, financial reports and other required reports within company guidelines.
• Responsible and accountable for ensuring the hospital complies with the relevant statutory accounting requirements by delivering required reports.
• Finance Lead for the annual negotiation and monthly management of NHS contracts. Attend all NHS contract meetings with the ICB/Trusts to ensure any finance actions or queries are fully resolved within agreed timescales.
• Ensure accurate and timely NHS reconciliations on a monthly and quarterly basis through to consolidated invoicing and cash allocation.
• Manage interrelated finance systems to drive continuous improvements to systems, data and processes.
• Identify issues and trends and recommend solutions to address complex situations, applying modelling tools and techniques to deliver insights and analysis.
• Produce insightful, integrated and accurate management reporting information that enhances decision making.
• Influence and steer the development of business cases and investment proposals to enable effective decision making. Lead the preparation and evaluation of capital expenditure requests for the hospital.
• Control and governance over the Hospital’s workforce utilisation across Perm; Bank and Agency staff. Ensuring the right conversations are happening to optimise operational efficiency and financial metrics.
• Manage payroll, billing and revenue capture processes.
• Manage risk through use of assurance and compliance frameworks relating to workplace safety, incident management and infection control.
• Evaluate, develop and maintain own performance through commitment to growing professional skills and industry knowledge.
• Write the financial section of the 3-year hospital plan and update annually.
• 100% compliance with report deadlines.
• Maintain days unbilled revenue at equal to or less than hospital target.
• Meet debtor day target.
• Meet or improve on departmental and hospital budget targets.
• Ensure weekly forecasts are submitted on time.
• Demonstrate and support the Ramsay leadership behaviours.
• Proactively support staff development, performance, and career progression.
• Actively manage 100% of workforce vacancies.
• Develop action plans to address areas for improvement arising from staff satisfaction surveys.
• Assess financial risks and maintain the financial components of the hospital risk reg

• Part qualified will be considered
• Strong commercial understanding and experience with finance transactions and

• Experience controlling budget preparation for a business.
• Strong business acumen and business partnering experience, with the ability to analyse,

• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities through data analysis, and lead a project

• Experience using business acumen skills to contribute broader benefits to the

• High standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data, and championing of data

• Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal and external

• Strong decision making and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including being inquisitive, empathetic, clear and concise.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise with all levels and functions of a business including the SLT.
• Demonstrated ability to foster collaboration and influence decision making amongst stakeholders in the SLT and in clinical teams.
• Experience successfully leading and motivating a diverse team.
• Experience managing poor performance within a diverse team.
• Experienced with successfully leading and motivating a wide team that extends beyond the

• Proven ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines and take

initiative.

Sound computer skills using the MS Office Suite, especially Excel, with experience analysing large volumes of