Hi all I'm currently recruiting for a Managment Accountant in the NHS.

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Hours - 37.5
Location - Essex
Rate - £16-£20 PAYE Per hour (Paid Weekly by an umbrella company)

, To produce monthly budget reports for services within one or more directorates, ensuring that the monthly reporting timetable is achieved, the data within the reports is accurate, and correctly takes account of all appropriate accruals and pre-payments.

This will include reconciling budget movements, monitoring savings plans, and identifying and investigating variances.

, Understand the key drivers of the underlying financial position and communicate these effectively to budget holders.

Through knowledge of the service and dialogue with the budget holders, prepare robust forecast income and expenditure estimates to feed into the organisational monitoring returns and performance reports.

, Meet regularly with budget holders to discuss financial performance, and to understand the reasons for any variances.

Provide challenge, support and advice to ensure that variances are dealt with and financial control is maintained.

, Identify areas of concern and communicate these to the budget holders and, where appropriate, senior finance team and service directors.

Provide advice to managers to take corrective action, including identifying opportunities for cost reduction or income generation.

Follow through on agreements for corrective action and provide appropriate level of challenge where performance does not improve.

, Attend Directorate Senior Management Team meetings (senior operational and clinical staff in attendance), and present the financial information clearly.

Be able to explain and discuss financial performance in detail and deal with any queries arising.

, Undertake costings for new developments and service enhancements within the service area supported.

Attend relevant meetings with operational managers and commissioners as required.

, Provide support and advice on the revenue implications of business cases, service developments and proposed service changes.

, Support managers to develop an annual budget to ensure services are planned within available resources and accurately reflect the expected cost of the service.

This will include costing an approved staffing establishment, assessing the level of non-pay expenditure, understanding income flows and identifying cost pressures.



, Assist budget holders in identifying their Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs), and monitor delivery of cost reductions and achievement of any CIP targets set.

, Provide support to the Senior Finance Business Partner in monitoring contract income, ensuring that contract variations are recorded in the ledger in a timely fashion and any payment issues are highlighted immediately.

Responsible for ensuring that monthly block invoices for defined contracts are raised and income reconciled on a monthly basis.

, Ensure that all directorate income is invoiced correctly and regularly.

Provide appropriate and clear supporting information for charges, and liaise with debtor organisations to resolve any queries.

Benefits of Service Care Solutions

, 250 training allowance
, Excellent pay rates
, Exceptional referral bonuses
, Specialist's Non-Medical Non Clinical consultants offering single point of contact
, Frequent notifications for upcoming opportunities via text and email
, Nationwide provider of staff to cover over 40 different NHS trust and private organisations
, DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services free of charge.
If this role sounds of interest contact matt.clarke@servicecare.org.uk or 01772208953.