Senior Assistant CSU Accountant (XN06)
Job Description
Job summary
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a highly motivated Assistant Accountant to join our Management Accounting Team. This is a key role in providing excellent financial management and leadership skills within the organisation, working closely with clinical and corporate departments.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, finance professional who will play a key role in shaping what our service delivery looks like and making a difference in the challenging financial environment.
We need a team player, who is proactive, resilient and driven to succeed, with a real commitment to work as part of the team taking the finance function forward and making a difference to our patients.
Expected Shortlisting Date
08/01/2025
Planned Interview Date
20/01/2025
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the Senior Assistant CSU Accountant role is to:
Support the Senior CSU Accountant in providing financial support and advice to managers and clinicians in a number of business units.
With support from senior staff, to promote the active engagement of business units in delivering sustainable financial improvement.
Assisting both managers and clinicians in developing plans to meet savings targets.
Monitoring and reporting on the results of intended actions.
Communicating the Trusts financial strategies and policies and how their actions impact upon it.
Providing financial analysis and information to support their understanding of current performance and how this can be improved.
The development of business cases for service change.
About us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the country currently rated Good by the CQC. Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and beyond. We also play an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students and are a centre of world-class research and pioneering new treatments.
Our vision is to be the best for specialist and integrated care. Our staff helped to define the values and behaviours that we should work to so that we can achieve this vision. This has become known as The Leeds Way, and forms the foundation of our culture, our ethos and how we work every day. These values are
We are patient-centred;
We are fair;
We are collaborative;
We are accountable;
We are empowered.
Our Trust has a strong track record of financial performance.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job responsibilities
See job description for full details
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Business planning, business cases and value for money
To clearly communicate to the business unit management team the Trusts financial strategy and policies with support from their Senior CSU Accountant.
With direction from the Senior CSU Accountant, provide financial support to managers in developing and reviewing expenditure, income and activity plans to meet financial and other targets that are in accordance with the Trust strategy.
Performance reporting and management
Provide accurate, timely and comprehensive financial reports for the business units. Develop appropriate non-financial indicators to support understanding of the financial position. Support the business unit management team in delivering sustainable performance improvement.
Setting Budgets
To assist in the setting of budgets and the development of annual and longer-term financial plans in accordance with the Trusts guidelines and timetable.
Human Resources and training
To regularly provide training to staff throughout the Finance Team and other closely associated functions.
Governance and compliance
To ensure that day to day work is carried out in line with the agreed policies and procedures and quality standards and that appropriate financial controls are met.
Policy and service development
To support in developing improved ways of reporting information to business units, the Board and external customers making best use of the reporting tools available, for example the financial ledger and, spreadsheets.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working in an office environment, within a finance discipline which has included experience of a range of accounting areas and financial systems.
- Knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel
- Specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures.
- Detailed understanding of financial ledgers and finance software business tools and how to use these to produce bespoke reports and analysis.
- The provision of management accounting information and advice to managers and other staff.
Desirable
- Experience of working in finance within the NHS.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- A confident, pleasant approach with a willingness and ability to build excellent working relationships and networks and to engage with a wide range of colleagues both internal and external.
- A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately
- Commitment to taking responsibility and facilitating the successful achievement of desired outcomes, facing competing challenges in a calm manner and coordinating input from a number of sources.
- A commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal development.
- Ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition.
- Ability to handle confidential, sensitive and contentious information appropriately
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to analyse and interpret very detailed financial information and perform complex calculations and reconciliations in an environment of ever changing priorities and demands.
Qualifications
Essential
- Education and knowledge equivalent to the postgraduate diploma level of a professional accountancy qualification.
- 5 GCSE Grade 4-9 (old system A*-C) or equivalent, to include Maths and English
Desirable
- Part qualified status (of CCAB or CIMA), AAT qualified
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
