Assistant Finance Manager - Management Accounts in Stevenage

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, our mission is to provide high-quality, compassionate care for our communities. Our vision to 2030 is to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.

Our values are:

• Include — We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
• Respect — We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
• Improve — We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job Overview: We are recruiting for an Assistant Finance Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Main Duties of the Job:

• Develop strong business partnering skills, gain exposure to senior stakeholders and contribute to financial sustainability and service improvement across the Trust.
• Provide accurate and timely financial reporting, forecasting and planning.
• Meet regularly with budget holders to provide advice on all aspects of financial control.
• Organise personal workloads to meet all relevant financial timetables in the delivery of the financial reporting/management remit as set by the Senior Finance Manager.
• Work a significant proportion of time (more than 80%) using computer applications, including Excel, Word, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Power BI and the Trust payroll system ESR.

Person Specification:

Qualifications / Training

• Essential – A’ levels or equivalent; completed AAT Technician stage or have equivalent experience in management accounting issues to include budgetary control and costing techniques.
• Desirable – Studying towards a CCAB qualification.

Previous Experience

• Essential – Significant experience in all aspects of financial reporting, planning and control; significant experience of working to tight reporting deadlines.
• Desirable – Experience in an NHS financial environment; experience of supervising junior staff.

Skills

• Essential – Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Excel, Word and large Ledger systems; ability to apply accounting knowledge and demonstrate analytical skills.
• Desirable – Experience of using bespoke IT systems e.g. dashboard software such as Power BI.

Knowledge

• Essential – Equivalent to part-qualified CCAB student with particular emphasis of all management accounting issues to include budgetary control and costing techniques.
• Desirable – An understanding of NHS Finance.

Other Requirements

• Essential – Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff; role model our Trust values every day; good communication skills, both written and oral to non-financial managers; ability to work on own initiative as well as under the direction of the Finance Manager; able to prioritise workload and supervise a small team.
• Desirable – The ability to undertake training of both junior Finance staff and budget managers.

When You Apply: Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts. Vacancies may close earlier than the advertised closing date where a high volume of applications are received.

Committed to Our Community: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of background, including candidates with disabilities and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and have achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process; if you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us at resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net.

Flexible Working: We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Any employee is entitled to seek flexible working patterns and we are committed to listening and considering all requests, balanced against service needs.