Management Accountant – Hybrid & Flexible Finance Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a suitably experienced and motivated Management Accountant to join our successful team within the finance function at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job:

• Budgetary control
• Financial advice and support
• Monthly reporting

About us:

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under‑represented.

Job responsibilities:

You will have excellent numerical and analytical skills and possess the ability to work autonomously, achieve deadlines and prioritise your workload. Significant experience in Microsoft Excel and a good understanding of general ledger accounting software would be an advantage.

What we can offer:

In return, we will offer you a warm and welcoming environment where you will be fully supported. In addition, we operate an agile working policy, whereby the team are based on site at our base in Darlington for three days per week and have the option to work at home, where preferred, for the rest of the week, on a rota basis. The department also works to a flexible working policy, enabling flexible start and finish times and creating the ability to take back time owed. The trust also supports anyone wishing to study towards AAT within this role via the apprenticeship route. This role is positioned within the team structure to enable excellent developmental and career progression opportunities.

Special Requirements:

• Good team player with ability to work collaboratively to achieve shared objectives.
• Ability to work under pressure, achieving tight and often conflicting deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative with minimum of supervision.
• Flexible and responsive.
• Ability to continuously reassess and strive to improve working practices to improve efficiency and performance in self & others.

Experience:

• Experience within a finance function.
• Experience of working within NHS finance.

Special Skills & Knowledge:

• The ability to provide and receive complex financial information to/from financial and non‑financial staff orally, in writing or electronically in a professional manner.
• Good computer skills with experience of the Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word.
• The ability to input into and interrogate the Finance General Ledger to obtain standard and ad hoc reports.
• Has the ability to quickly learn new skills and tasks as and when required.
• Ability to work to all routine and ad hoc deadlines.
• Ability to identify and act to remedy circumstances that mean a deadline is at risk.
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to provide training, advise and review the work of more junior team members.
• Must have good analytical skills.
• Possesses basic organisational skills.
• Has an appreciation of the NHS finance regime.
• Experience of Oracle Finance Ledger system.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs / O Levels (A* - C) including Maths and English.
• Demonstrates a track record of academic achievement or has experience of working within a finance function.
• Experience of working within an NHS finance function.
• Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.