Assistant Finance Manager - Financial Accounting

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a dynamic and motivated finance professional to join the Finance team. We're looking for a dedicated and innovative person who can demonstrate the drive and commitment needed to really make a difference to support the ongoing delivery of excellent services for our service users.

You will have a pro-active and positive approach, an ability to develop relationships with clinical colleagues and is adept at producing, analysing, and developing high quality financial information.

This is a challenging and rewarding role and will give you a broad range of professional development and experience. This is a great opportunity for someone who has the ability, drive and commitment to succeed and is looking to take the next step in developing their career within NHS Finance.

Key responsibilities include; supporting the Deputy Finance Manager, in the leadership of the Financial Accounting and Capital Team and responding to the need to continuously modernise the financial management function. This will involve performing detailed reviews of financial procedures, systems, ledger coding and reporting, and increased automation and use of IT to allow increased focus on service transformation. Whilst the Deputy Finance Manager will have overall team responsibility to co-ordinated this work, the Assistant Finance Manager will play a key supporting role in detailed reviews and planning to modernise operating procedures., The Assistant Finance Manager will be responsible for delivering high quality and timely financial, technical accounting and capital support to the wider finance team and other operational managers.

The post holder will support the Senior Finance Manager in the preparation of the annual, quarterly and monthly capital reporting.

Key responsibilities will include, supporting the Deputy Finance Manager, in the leadership of the Financial Accounting and Capital Team; overseeing all accounting for VAT accounting and returns; review for approval of all balance sheet and other control account reconciliations, capital accounting, working capital, cash management and the Better Lives Charity.

The Assistant Finance Manager will support the Deputy Finance Manager on leading on inter NHS and Whole of Government agreement of balances.

A critical role will be responding to the need to continuously modernise the financial management function. This will involve performing detailed reviews of financial procedures, systems, ledger coding and reporting, and increased automation and use of IT to allow increased focus on service transformation.

The post holder will review and maintain financial systems and controls and will ensure the accuracy of all ledger and spreadsheet input, accruals, adjustments and reporting. He/she will support the Senior Finance Manager to ensure that appropriate training and development is provided to staff within the Financial Accounting Team.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care- We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen- We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver- We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 4500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.