Deputy Chief Management Accountant

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.

Person specification

Qualifications, Accreditations, Education

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 deadlines 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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