Job summary
- Main area
- Management Accounts
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (hybrid working with 2 days in the office)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0817
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Management Accountant
Band 6
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
You will be responsible for providing high quality support to the Head of Reporting through the provision of a comprehensive range of management accounting activities.
Main duties of the job
To coordinate own work and liaise with colleagues across Finance to prepare monthly accounts. This will involve maintaining and updating financial systems within set deadlines
To provide support for the Finance Business Partners on all aspects of financial management Proactively contribute to the management of the financial performance of a portfolio of budgets, identifying key financial pressures and appropriate corrective action.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- AAT Qualified
Desirable criteria
- Studying for CCAB accountancy qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous management accounting experience within the NHS.
- Previous experience of monitoring budgets and variance analysis
- Previous experience of data manipulation (with large data sets)
- Understanding of costing and PLICS
- Knowledge of Costing systems, overhead allocations and data reconciliation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using SBS General Ledger
- Experience in the use of SQL
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound, demonstrable knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
- Sound numeracy and analytical skills.
- Sound oral, written and verbal communication skills.
- Computer literate with high-level spreadsheet skills
- Able to calculate, manipulate and interpret high volumes of data and present in an intelligent manner
- Good organisational skills and the ability to plan, prioritise and manage own workload
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- • Advanced user of Microsoft Excel, required to design new and/or improve existing financial monitoring systems.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the organisation’s objectives and activities
- Understanding of the NHS agenda and knowledge of NHS financial framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sabina Rainczuk
- Job title
- Head of Reporting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622237262
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