Management Accountant - Band 5
- NHS
- Full Time
- Chelmsford
- 32073.00 - 39043.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Eligibility requirement: Applications are restricted to individuals who are currently substantively employed by an NHS organisation within the East of England . Applications from anyone who does not meet this criterion will not be considered .
We are seeking a Management Accountant who will support the delivery of the Financial Management function within the ICB.
Our Management Accountants are key roles within our management accounting hub for the ICB. You will support the team and the Associate Director of Financial Management, Accounts and Financial Services, to deliver the engine room of the finance function, responsible for the integrity of our ledger, our reporting and our annual accounts close.
This team is crucial to everything the wider team delivers and has a key role to play in ensuring the organisation realises its ambitions. The team will deliver the monthly cycle of close down and reporting working closely with our wider finance team to support the budget holders, project owners and senior responsible officers across the organisation to ensure they have the right insight to deliver their objectives. Sharing and learning from each other to shape forecasting, resource utilisation, risk, mitigation, productivity and value opportunities.
The team will be key to interpreting technical guidance and will work as a conduit across the finance and commercial directorate, as well as with external partners where required.
Main duties of the job
You will be working towards an Accounting Technician qualification or have evidence of sustained commitment to continuing professional development within finance.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Supporting the day-to-day financial management, budgeting and monthly reporting.
Be responsible for managing the Primary Care Finance inbox and processing vatious payments to GP Practicies and Primary Care Networks (PCN's).
Dealing with external stakeholder queries around payments
Processing ledger entries
Reconcilling key accounts such as investigating and correcting coding errors while validating data feeds
Ensure accurate reporting and records management
Assisting with the preparation and presentation of all aspects of the monthly management accounts for a given area.
Assisting with delivering the mechanics of the posiiton, completing recharges, recovering income and calculating apportionments of costs where necessary.
About us
NHS Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and funding of NHS services for around 1.9 million people across Essex. Our role as an ICB is to bring health and care services together, improve the health and wellbeing of our population and ensure equitable access to services and outcome for everyone. The organisations headquarters is Seax House, Chelmsford, and we operate a hybrid working model (2 office-based days) that includes working across Essex and from home. Essex ICB currently has offices in Brentwood, Harlow and Colchester, in addition to the Chelmsford HQ.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We know that different experiences, ideas and perspectives help create a stronger and more innovative organisation that delivers better outcomes for patients. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including people of all ages, disabilities, sex, gender identity or expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or personal circumstances. Our policies ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently throughout the recruitment process, including consideration of reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants.
Please note that the organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence.
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The proposed Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be a new organisation formed through the consolidation of three ICB areas in response to the NHSs ambition to deliver a more streamlined, strategic and cost-effective model of health commissioning. The ICB will oversee the commissioning of care for the approximately 2 million people who live in Essex. Operating within a reduced running cost envelope and aligned to the new requirements of ICBs in England, the proposed Essex ICB will focus on improving population health outcomes, health equity and smarter resource allocation.
By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital.
Our Management Accountants are key roles within our management accounting hub for the ICB. They support the team and the Associate Director of Financial Management, Accounts & Financial Services, to deliver the engine room of the finance function, responsible for the integrity of our ledger, our reporting and our annual accounts close. These teams are key to everything the wider team delivers and have a key role to play in ensuring the organisation realises its ambitions. The team will deliver the monthly cycle of close and reporting working closely with our Business Partnering team to support the budget holders, project owners and senior responsible officers across the organisation to ensure they have the right insight to deliver their objectives. Sharing and learning from each other to shape forecasting, resource utilisation, risk, mitigation, productivity and value opportunities. The team will be relied upon to deliver accurate and timely management accounting, using their skills and expertise.
As the ICB transitions to become a leaner, more focused strategic commissioning organisation the post holder will be expected to support the Director of Finance in delivering on the three fundamental shifts set out in the NHS 10-year plan:
- From Treatment to Prevention: Embedding preventative, personalised and population based approaches to commissioning.
- From Hospital to Community: Championing care model redesign that supports community and neighbourhood health.
- From Analogue to Digital: Enabling clinically driven transformation through digital innovation, data analytics and evidence based improvement.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To deliver on the job description set out above, the job holder will be expected to deliver on the requirements set out below:
Policy and service development
- Support implementation of policy and / or service developments related to finance
- Support team to ensure compliance with relevant ICB policies
- Completes surveys or evaluations to support policy implementation
Strategy and analysis
- Understanding of complex data relating to finance
- Helps present insights and reports, drawing on complex data, that can be used to inform decision making and delivery
- Use of data and insight to contribute to reporting, including performance management, financial and quality reporting against agreed contractual or project deliverables
- Working with our Senior Management Accountant Officer and the Senior Management Accountant to support the understanding of run rate and underlying position of an area.
Planning and organisation
- Support development and delivery of project plans relating to finance, helping develop effective arrangements to support governance, risk management, escalations and reporting
- Manage competing priorities, prioritizing own resources to effectively deliver agreed tasks or projects
- Ensure accurate reporting and records management
- Preparation and presentation of all aspects of the monthly management accounts for a given area.
- Delivering the mechanics of the position, completing recharges, recovering income and calculating apportionments of costs where necessary.
Communications and Partnerships
- Work collaboratively, modelling inclusive, respectful and compassionate behaviours
- Supports development of high quality written and verbal briefings
- Build strong, trust-based relationships across the ICB as needed
- Supports effective engagement with patients and the public as required
- Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams to help deliver agreed projects / manage directorate
- Effective management of complex, sensitive and challenging information
Financial and resource management
- Supports procurement of relevant services
Team management and capability building
- Supporting directorate oversight of workforce reporting, including reporting on key HR metrics
- Supports wider understanding of projects across the ICB and system
- Able to influence in order to deliver effectively through others
- Support the effective transition of relevant functions to new portfolios ...
