Senior Management Accounts Advisor in Bebington

To produce and report on financial information, assisting the Finance Business Partners, in providing information, financial support and advice to Senior Managers, Budget Holders and Clinical Directors. This includes the completion of the variance analysis to highlight key areas of deviation from agreed budgets, with reasons.

Main duties of the job:

• To gather and produce data for inputting on the general ledger system, ensuring all income and expenditure is shown on the relevant cost centres by way of journaling.
• Monitor performance against budgets, investigate variances and advise upon remedial action where necessary.
• To provide budgetary control information within tight departmental timescales.
• To deputise for the Finance Business Partners when necessary at departmental review meetings, and provide the necessary supporting information.
• To provide financial advice to various levels of management within specific operational directorates.
• To ensure that all relevant monthly adjustments including accruals and prepayments are performed to a tight financial timetable in order that the Senior Finance Business Partners and Assistant Director of Finance can complete the monthly board reports on time.
• To ensure that a high quality service is provided to budget managers with queries being responded to in a timely manner.
• To assist the Senior Finance Business Partner in the annual budget setting process as required.

Working for our organisation:

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

Qualifications:

• NQ4 level in Accounting (AAT) or equivalent
• Word and Excel Skills, relevant IT training and experience
• Business Administration/Finance NVQ

Knowledge and expertise:

• Extensive experience of providing accounting services.
• Demonstrated numeracy and literacy skills
• Knowledge of the Oracle Integrated Financial system
• The ability to raise debtor’s notifications for outstanding activity
• Knowledge of NHS VAT requirements.

Experience:

• Previous experience of operating in a Finance role
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams
• NHS Finance experience

The Trust takes active responsibility for meeting national guidance and legal requirements in relation to our Safeguarding Policy, including local arrangements for the protection of adults at risk. The Trust is committed to providing high standards of both patient and staff experience. To support us in doing this the Trust, in partnership with Trade Unions has developed and embedded key values and behaviours that all staff are required to demonstrate throughout their employment.

The Trust's values and behaviours support the Trust Vision 'to provide the best cancer care to the people we serve' and our Mission 'to improve health and wellbeing through compassionate, safe and effective cancer care'.

We promote and support diversity in our workforce. The Trust have staff networks such as Ethnic Diversity Staff Network, LGBTQ+ Staff Network, Armed Forces Staff Network, MAPLE Staff Network & Menopause Support Group. The Trust does not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment and has firmed up processes for reporting this, including a dedicated Freedom To Speak Up (FTSU) Guardian.