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Job summary

Main area
Finance
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (A minimum of 3 days office working required)
Job ref
308-CORP-3213
Employer
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Headquarters
Town
London
Salary
£88,250 - £100,355 per annum incl HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/04/2026 23:59

Employer heading

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Deputy Chief Management Accountant

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year.  We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.

We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city.  We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.

We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.

We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time

Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.

 

 

Job overview

The Deputy Chief Management Accountant role will work closely with the Chief Management Accountant (CMA) and be responsible for the running and collation of the month end financial position, and be responsible for the provision of all financial analytical data to support the running of the Trust.

Please note:

  • CCAB recognised accountancy qualification required
  • This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications.
  • The role requires a minimum of three days office working.
  • Interviews will be held the week commencing 11th May.

 

Main duties of the job

• Develop the Financial Management Team to provide a high quality business partnering 
function, by enhancing cross working between teams and improving processes which impact
on the function
• Act as the principal deputy to the Chief Management Accountant, assuming full responsibility 
for the management accounting function in their absence, including leadership of the finance 
team and presentation of financial reports to senior management and Board-level 
committees
• Lead on the preparation and submission of external financial reporting
• Provide trust wide analysis of the recurrent position, and analysis for our commissioners
• Responsible for developing, leading and managing the Trust’s strategic financial 
management, together with the CMA, ensuring it adds value to the Trust
• Offer expert knowledge of NHS business cases and investment appraisal generally
• Be responsible for the Trust’s Costing function and submission of the National Cost 
Collection

Working for our organisation

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the busiest ambulance Trust in the UK - it is a very exciting Finance Team to be part of. We are seeking someone who will fit with the Trust values – Caring, Respect and Teamwork. This role sits in our Management Accounts team, but has very close links to Operational and Executive Directors.

The Finance team works widely across the Trust at all levels up to Board and with a variety of other partners such as external NHS Trusts, commercial organisations, Heathrow Airport, Stadia, and London's Air Ambulance.

You will have the opportunity to join the team and gain experience of being involved in a varied portfolio.

Annual leave starts at 27 days rising to 33 days, plus bank holidays, in line with agenda for change (NHS terms and conditions).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Provide leadership to the Financial Management Team, and line management to 
    the Head of Costing
  • Provide strategic financial information to Executive Committee, Board members 
    and senior managers for corporate decision making
  • Report and discuss with Executive Team, Trust Board and senior managers 
    contentious and highly complex Trust-wide issues such as the scenarios for 
    strategic financial plans, financial risks and financial viability over the strategic 
    horizon.
  • Deputise for the Chief Management Accountant on all financial issues as required
  • Lead the costing team to manage all areas of costing priorities including national 
    cost collection submissions and service line reporting.
  • Lead the financial input on large and complex projects, liaising with Finance 
    Business Partners to manage delivery of high quality business case support
  • Ensure the Trust’s financial plans align with other aspects of the Trust’s strategy
  • Ensure the robust management and governance of financial frameworks, 
    providing technical expertise to others in the Finance Department across a range 
    of areas

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role, please see the attached job description

Person specification

Qualifications, Accreditations, Education

Essential criteria
  • CCAB recognised accountancy qualification
  • Significant post qualification experience in a senior accounting role
  • An MBA or equivalent experience of managing part of the Finance function in a large service delivery organisation
  • Undertaken a variety of additional short courses to develop specialist knowledge
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of dealing with highly complex discussions at Director level
  • Proven track record of providing high quality, financial analysis and modelling
  • Experience of preparation and completion of external monthly financial reporting and planning submissions to regulators
  • Experience of managing costing functions and national costing submissions
  • Experience of working at a strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Specialist in technical accounting issues, the post holder must be able to demonstrate sound technical accounting knowledge. This must include the application of knowledge from IFRS
  • Able to demonstrate sound analytical skills with the ability to deal effectively with large quantities of complex data, both financial and non-financial and producing clear and understandable recommendations from it.
  • Able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the NHS as a whole, its strategic direction and implications of policy.
  • Experience of the NHS planning process
  • Highly developed IT skills.
  • Able to plan and co-ordinate the work in / outside of Finance to meet the month end and year-end timetables. Experience of negotiating and agreeing deadliness and standards and quality of work with other departments.
  • Highly developed level of communication and interpersonal skills that enable highly complex technical issues to be explained in clear and concise terms.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Newport
Job title
Chief Management Accountant
Email address
[email protected]
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