Job overview

To support the Directorate Senior Management Accountant & Senior Finance Manager (SFM) in providing a full financial management service. This will involve liaising directly with Directorate budget managers to provide financial assistance and addressing budget queries at times on complex and sensitive issues.

To be responsible for the preparation of budget statements to the Directorates and Departments managed by the team in line with agreed timetables and to ensure that these are supported by accurate documentation required by local financial procedures

To assist the SFM in preparing the Directorate procedure costs to support private patient prices and SLA negotiations where applicable

To set up processes and procedures to ensure workload and performance information is received on time to aid financial analysis.

Main duties of the job

·         To produce accurate and timely budget statements and related financial information.

·         To be responsible for providing support to budget holders in the review of financial management information.

·         To advise both finance managers and non-finance managers on the issues relating to their service line, which will involve analysing trends and taking data from a number of sources to draw conclusions.

·         To deputise for the Senior Management Accountant.

·         To prepare variance analysis reports, investigations and costings for the Senior Management Accountant and Senior Finance Manager.

·         To investigate financial queries providing feedback and advice to budget holders.

·         To prepare for and attend budget meetings, taking actions arising from such meetings such as virement of budgets.

·         To carry out management accounting month end processes in accordance with procedures, working to tight deadlines and covering for colleagues where required.

·         To maintain a financial performance report for operational team meetings, including highlighting key variances and trends, commenting on influencing factors and advising on any necessary management action, and presenting this report at meetings, with minimal oversight required from the SMA/SFM

·         To assist in the preparation of business cases as required. 

For further information please refer to detailed Job Description attached

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care