Job overview
Would you like to join our Finance team and become part of one of the largest non-acute Foundation Trusts in the country? CNWL provides mental and community health services across London and Milton Keynes, plus a variety of specialist services including addictions, prison health and sexual health. The finance department offers a range of opportunities to partner and advise these services as they meet their operational challenges.
We are looking to appoint a self-motivated CCAB-qualified accountant to fill a Finance Manager vacancy within the finance department at Milton Keynes. As well as providing business partnering support to your clinical directorates you will lead and develop a team of Management Accountants in supporting their own services. You will need to work within tight deadlines, work under pressure and possess a real drive to succeed as well as strong interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
The Finance Manager will be responsible for leading and developing a team of Management Accountants ensuring a professional, comprehensive and efficient service is provided to senior managers, budget holders and other internal and external stakeholders.
Whilst ensuring the achievement of current and future financial targets, the Finance Manager will oversee the development and production of the monthly management accounts, budgetary control information (monthly and annual), monitoring and reporting budget variances, analysing costs, evaluating and supporting cost improvement programmes, monitoring achievement of savings targets and assisting senior managers and budget holders with the preparation of service development plans.
Working for our organisation
CNWL’s finance department offers a diverse and friendly environment for professional development. We are a large team with many opportunities to progress your career, and have set ourselves the target of finding a mentor for every team-member who wants one. Our staff are based across various sites and we welcome flexible working. We also have the benefit of being an accredited employer for ACCA, CIPFA and CIMA.
We are currently reviewing and streamlining our accounting processes and looking to become a sector leader in automation. The key driver for this is to free time for supporting operational services in the Trust. You will be making a significant contribution to this work plan, whilst benefiting from being part of a strong team that is passionate about supporting and developing your talents to make the most of your career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details in attached job description. Summary of responsibilities
1. To contribute to the financial management of the Finance Directorate as a member of the senior finance team and to ensure the provision of a management accounting service that is agreed and acceptable to both the Director of Finance and Executive Board of the Trust.
2. To provide effective budgetary control to the Trust by producing regular, meaningful and accurate income and expenditure information to budget holders by the formulation of appropriate budget setting methodologies and ensuring these are accurately recorded in the financial ledger system.
3. To ensure that budgetary units develop and act as effective businesses units within the Trust, ensuring cost efficiencies are delivered and margins maximised.
4. To develop strategies that will maximise the Trust’s financial position through effective co-ordination between income, expenditure and business management.
5. To provide expert input into the formulation of business cases bringing together budgetary plans as well as assessments of risk ratings and particularly the impact on the Trust’s EBITDA.
6. To analyse costs and make recommendations to develop cost improvement plans. Thereafter to monitor cost improvement schemes to ensure targets, timescales and Trust expectations are met, reporting deviations as appropriate.
7. To ensure the production of accurate financial returns to commissioners and other external stakeholders as required in line with set deadlines.
8. Ensure their team of Management Accountants delivers month end financial information within the 3 working day turnaround.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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