Assistant Management Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a suitably experienced and motivated Assistant Management Accountant to join our successful team within the finance function at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. This post is a permanent position, reporting to and supporting the Senior Management Accountant. It will be based on site for the majority of the week with the potential for a portion of the week to be worked away from the office.

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. A knowledge and experience in using Microsoft Excel and an 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 for a proportion of the 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 a professional qualification, including financial and study leave support. This role is positioned within the team structure to enable excellent developmental and career progression opportunities.

Special Requirements:

• Flexible and responsive
• Motivated
• Driving posts must have a valid Full UK driving licence

Qualifications:

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

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 Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• 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.
• Must have good analytical skills.
• Possesses basic organisational skills.
• Has an appreciation of the NHS finance regime.
• The ability to input into and interrogate the Finance General Ledger to obtain standard and ad hoc reports.

Experience:

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

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.