Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 270-TH186-CORP
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dryland Block, St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Management Accountant
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Management Accountant to provide high quality financial management support to both clinical and non clinical budget holders. The role includes meeting with budget holders, preparation of monthly reports and forecasts, involvement in financial bids for new business, financial process improvement and completion of year end working papers.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an enthusiastic, confident, flexible, hard working individual who has experience of working within management accounts, preferably in an NHS setting. You will need to be an excellent communicator, in both written and oral formats, to explain financial issues to non finance managers and clinicians. The ability to work independently and know when to ask for further advice and support is also required.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.
We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The financial management team seeks to achieve optimum value for money in all of the trust’s services. It does this by supporting managers to understand the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the resources within their control. The post holder will need to produce insightful financial analysis and be persuasive when dealing with conflicting priorities, ensuring financial opportunities and risks are quantified and understood by a variety of stakeholders.
The senior management accountant reports to the senior finance business partner. They will build close relationships with service managers across the trust in a variety of settings. Utilising their expertise to identify, collate and analyse key information from operational and support services. The post holder’s responsibilities will include; management accounts, budgets, forecasts, financial bids for new business, financial process improvement, and year-end working papers. They will use all of these outputs to help secure the trust’s financial risk ratings and audit opinion. As a senior member of the team, the post holder will be expected to work independently and use their own initiative within their own sphere of work. Guidance will be available, when required , from the senior finance business partner. The post holder will be expected to become involved in financial matters relating to the whole Trust as and when required and contribute to the continuous improvement of the team and Finance department procedures.
We want to recruit a diverse workforce, who are values driven, compassionate and have a desire to deliver high quality care every day. This role is about planning for the future and making sure the actions we take today will maintain the long-term financial sustainability of the trust and support the delivery of the NHS long term plans. In return we offer a role that will allow the post holder to gain valuable wide-ranging experience, helping develop their own career, and help this trust deliver outstanding care to its patients.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Part qualified CCAB accountant
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS finance
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- 2-3 years management accounts experience
Desirable criteria
- Other knowledge and experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Powers
- Job title
- Head of Financial Management
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07907 720598
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