Senior Management Accountant

An opportunity has arisen for the role of Senior Management Accountant, acting as the Financial Management lead for one of the Trust's clinical divisions and playing a key role in managing and reporting its financial position. The post holder will provide expert financial advice to operational colleagues and lead their staff in providing an effective financial management and reporting service., The Senior Management Accountant's main duties will be to:

• Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management across their division
• Influence investment decisions and priorities for the division, including providing financial input into business cases and informing management decisions
• Support operational teams with addressing budget variances and delivering challenging efficiency targets
• Lead the month end process for their area of responsibility, ensuring timely and accurate reporting
• Co-ordinate the budget setting and forecasting processes
• Manage and develop Management Accountants and other support staff
  
  The successful candidate will be a fully qualified CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with significant financial management experience in a large organisation. They will have experience of managing and developing staff and will have demonstrated the ability to build effective working relationships and deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our Services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme