Job overview

The Senior Financial Accountant will be a key post supporting the Head of Financial Accounts in the provision of high-quality financial services across HEIW. The position sits in the Financial Accounts team within the Finance, Planning, Performance and National Programmes Directorate.

This role provides the core statutory accounting functions and manages key financial systems and processes for the organisation. It includes responsibilities that are concerned with financial control procedures and policies, governance and legislative requirements, financial transactions, systems and external statutory reporting. This role will require excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. The post holder will need to demonstrate a high level of technical accounting knowledge and effective training and influencing skills. 

For more information, please contact:

Martyn Pennell

Head of Financial Accounting

Email: [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Working within a £370m NHS organisation, the key elements of the post include leading on the preparation of the year end accounts and supporting working papers, producing an accurate monthly statement of financial position, producing cash-flow forecasts, supporting the month-end procedures to close down the financial systems and lead on the month end reconciliation processes. 

Working for our organisation

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers.  Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW’s is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,

- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,

- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,

- compassionate leadership,

- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,

- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as “One HEIW Team”. Do you want to join that team?