Management Accountant in Oldham

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Management Accountant to join the growing financial management needs of Hope Citadel Healthcare. This role is ideal for a qualified financial professional (CIMA/ACCA) who has prior accounting experience and wants to put it into practice for meaningful purposes, someone ambitious and looking to progress their finance career within a growing organisation. You will be based across all the practices at Hope Citadel, with an office in Oldham, reporting into the Finance Director. You will work within the experienced finance team expanding the capacity of the team and adding value to the organisation.

Main duties of the job

• You will support the company in financial management in major spend areas.
• There will be a wide array of different stakeholders to engage, however PCNs, Property and Pensions will be major focus areas as well as identifying efficiency improvements.
• You will lead on Primary Care Network (PCNs) financial information to enable Hope Citadel to be effective in each one it participates in and to represent them.
• Working with practices, you'll support them with financial and funding decisions relating to capital projects and ongoing expenditure.
• You will coordinate the information required for GPs to effectively complete their pension administration as well as supporting them with NHS pension guidance available, relevant to any queries.
• You will work in collaboration with the operations team, working closely with the Finance Manager.
• This role will provide the basis for decision making of the organisation.

About us

Hope Citadel is a primary care provider with a heart for deprived communities. We run 11 doctors' practices, mainly in Oldham and Rochdale, and employ nearly 250 staff. We were started 15 years ago by a passionate group of people looking to reverse the inverse care law by providing quality healthcare in areas of deprivation. This still underpins why we do what we do to make the invisible, visible. Our staff are driven by social justice, by compassion, and by a drive to see real change in the communities they live and work in.

Primary care is not an easy space to work in, and that is exacerbated in areas of deprivation. In order to provide the best service to patients, it is vital that our finances and processes are aligned. We prioritise maintaining high healthcare outcomes, but know that in order to do this, we need strong finances to allow this to be invested back for patient and staff benefit. We do this by investing in the right staff and making commitments such as being a Real Living Wage employer and running mentoring and learning and development opportunities.

Job responsibilities

• Engage with PCNs and ensure the financials of each PCN are handled appropriately either in the financial support provided to the representatives attending the PCN or representing in person.
• Enable insight across the PCNs to be utilised to ensure funding is obtained and fairly made available to the practices.
• Preparing business cases for building improvements and capital investments across 11 practices. Understanding the tenancies and working with the potential funders.
• Lead on consolidating and analysing the financial information to be able to support the financial costs of building upkeep and represent Hope Citadel with third parties.
• To provide insight into possible efficiencies and leading on potential procurement changes in large cost areas, including but not limited to buildings.
• Lead on the support of GPs, in relation to NHS pension. To provide general training and support in how to understand payslips and pension requirements on them.
• Practice level budget support to the practices on understanding baselines for the year ahead and understanding material monthly variances.
• Using financial analytics, provide accurate insights to the executive team about the organisation's financial outcomes and opportunities.
• Enhance existing, or develop new, finance training programmes for non-financial employees and initiatives which support employees' financial engagement.
• Coordinate responses to external parties with financial information either required as part of governance or representing Hope Citadel's interests.
• Create or update financial guides and enhance company policies on finance matters.
• Work alongside the Payroll manager to ensure the smooth and accurate delivery of monthly payroll.
• Lead wider finance team in annual or ad-hoc projects that require management information or financial insight.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience preparing management accounts in both revenue and capital areas.
• Experience of working with non-finance teams.
• Experience of preparing business cases for decision making.
• Experience of preparing budgets and supporting teams to track and monitor against them.
• Experience with SAGE accounting systems.
• Experience within healthcare and general practice.
• Experience of financial matters associated with property.
• Analytical, detail-focused and proactive.
• Enjoys explaining finance to non-finance teams.

Qualifications

• Qualified CIMA/ACCA.
• Other supporting qualifications in reporting, financial or business insight.

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of how financial principles are applied, in particular UK GAAP rules that could impact financial decisions within the organisational context.
• Understanding appropriate financial analytics and business case approaches to inform strategic decisions.
• Strong Excel knowledge to be able to do financial modelling.
• Strong presentational skills to senior decision makers.
• Working knowledge of the NHS and staff roles within GP practices.
• NHS Pension scheme knowledge.
• Primary Care Network working knowledge.

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.

£45,000 to £50,000 a year depending on experience.

Contract: Permanent.

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours.