Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-F-245555
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Management Accountant
Band 7
Job overview
The Senior Management Accountant is responsible for preparing and producing a range of reports, projections and analyses. The Senior Management Accountant will be the main point of reference for budget holders, to generate intelligence and to provide support for the forecasting and the business planning process. They will provide specialist advice to budget holders and be able to investigate complex queries to support service delivery.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Management Accountant will be required to communicate changes and trends to budget holders and be able to manage communications with a wide range of senior people from different professions. They will provide on-going training and support to budget holders and other key staff.
The Senior Management Accountant will be responsible for the development and supervision of junior management accounting staff.
The Senior Management Accountant will take a lead in creating new reports and supporting the Head of Finance with analytical and costing projects in response to management and organisational needs. The number and diversity of reports produced means that priority setting will be important in ensuring that trends or problems are fully investigated and understood each month.
The Senior Management Accountant is expected to take an active interest in the development of their skills, experience and career, and to assist their reporting staff to do the same.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- Â Â applied for a Graduate visa
- Â Â or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- Â Â or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 12th January 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 20th January 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of a Consultancy Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) recognised accountancy qualification, or equivalent experience.
- Advanced Excel skills
Desirable criteria
- NHS or other public sector organisation experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an accounting department including experience in a specialist financial management role.
Desirable criteria
- Conducting comparative studies and audit review.
- Preparing a business case.
- Evaluating efficiency, effectiveness and economy.
- Experience in managing several senior client relationships at once, involving conflicting priorities.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of systems concepts and the manner in which information technology interfaces with the planning and monitoring process.
- A good working knowledge of the method of operation of all the accounting sub-systems i.e Payroll, Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Procurement.
- Understand and be able to apply the concepts and techniques for; • Budgeting and financial planning. • Costing and pricing. • Variance analysis and financial reporting. • The purpose of accounting accruals and provisions.
- Understand and be able to explain or investigate; • The rationale for Standing Financial Instructions and the means for ensuring that they are adhered to.
- Strong sense of quality and customer focus.
- Self motivated with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Prepared to contribute to how the department operates.
Skills
Essential criteria
- An ability to listen to budget holders and other senior managers and to interpret responses, so that reports, analysis and advice provided to them are relevant.
- Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both non-finance and finance staff.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels within the organisation.
- The Senior Management Accountant must be able to set and negotiate priorities for themselves and others, and subsequently programme workload, to achieve results and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrate experience supporting complex functions with high transaction volumes.
- Able to concentrate and focus on a range of issues in particular during the monthly reporting cycle, whilst co-ordinating the workload of others.
- Flexible and able to work as part of a team to ensure that team internal and statutory deadlines are met. Be prepared to challenge information provided or current processes.
- Be able to provide, or obtain from other sources, professional advice and support from across all of the accounting disciplines.
- Able to carry out work with the required attention to detail.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Omo Agbonwanegbe
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825092249
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