Job summary
- Main area
- 202081 Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months Maternity)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 262-A-26-8114564
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Carlisle
- Town
- Carlisle
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Management Accountant * Internal Only*
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
INTERNAL ONLY TO NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (NCIC) EMPLOYEES
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join the Management Accounts team as a Senior Management Accountant to cover a period of Maternity leave. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the relevant Collaborative / Corporate areas are supported in all aspects of budget management, including cost control, forecasting, identification and implementation of cost improvement schemes, to enable delivery of the Trust's financial plan.
The Finance team follow the Trust values and promote working as a team in a supportive environment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure monthly management accounts are produced which are accurate and timely, will hold regular meetings with budget holders and ensure that action plans are in place to ensure delivery of the financial plan. Forecasting of the expected financial position with budget holders will also be part of this role.
The post holder will support the development of the cost improvement plan, business cases and promote the use of PLICS to ensure efficient use of Trust funds.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- providing budget management advice to the Collaborative
- producing financial forecasts
- leading the budget setting process for the Collaborative
- contributing to CIP identification and providing the financial analysis for schemes
- contributing the financial aspects of business cases to support modernisation of services
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money wel
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.
We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Disclosure and Barring Service:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
NHS Discounts*
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
Excellent opportunities for development*
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
*Subject to eligibility
Important Information
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB, CIMA qualification (full member of a Professional Accounting Institute), or demonstrable, evidenced experience of successfully performing a substantially similar role.
- Evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Developing, managing and co-ordinating the work and systems needed to financially manage a large annual budget
- • Significant experience in preparing management accounts in a medium to large organisation (> £100m turnover) and associated tasks to ensure accuracy of the figures
- • Budget setting and management
- • Financial analysis
- • Experience of constraining senior budget holders over financial issues, persuading them to a certain course of action
- • Working effectively in a team and on own initiative
- • Preparing detailed written reports
- • Developing and delivering formal, complex financial presentations to large groups of non finance managers conveying concepts clearly and persuasively
- • Working with and advising senior members of staff.
- • Preparation of business cases.
- • Experience of year end processes
- • Working effectively and constructively with a range of staff disciplines.
- • Staff management
- • Continuing professional development with portfolio
- • Highly developed specialist knowledge of financial management in a healthcare/commercial environment
- • Detailed extensive, expert knowledge of accounting concepts
- • Excellent knowledge of general ledger and budgetary systems
- • Understanding of internal financial control systems
- • Advanced IT and spreadsheet skills
- • Understanding of costing methodologies
- • Current accounting standards and their interpretation and application
Desirable criteria
- • NHS experience with responsibility for substantial finance functions.
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- High degree of accuracy and analytical skills.
- Self motivated, proactive and flexible.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills in order to explain complex and potentially controversial financial issues and procedures and to convey financial information to both a finance and non-finance audience.
- Ability to analyse, interpret and present complex data (both quantitative and qualitative)
- Manage conflicting demands from within and outside the finance department.
- Make judgements on financial decisions and financial risk where there is no precedent
- Willingness to challenge senior managers and budget holders where adverse performance is not being satisfactorily addressed.
- Work as a team member
- Use initiative appropriately
- Prioritise self and workload to meet deadlines
- Deal with departmental staff, other staff, managers and patients with tact and diplomacy
- Analyse, manipulate and present highly complex information using a range of analytical and IT skills
- Concentrate for long periods of time on data input and complex analytical tasks
- Frequently switch between tasks as priorities and deadlines change
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Act in a diplomatic and professional manner at all times.
- • Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- • Flexible approach to working hours when there are heavy workloads
- • Must be able to travel independently of public transport to enable attendance at meetings throughout Cumbria and occasionally out of area.
- • Act in ways that support equality and value diversity
Desirable criteria
- Driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Leiper
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 273439
- Additional information
John Leiper
Assistant Director of Finance - Management Accounts
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