Job summary
- Main area
- Management Accounts
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working with 2 days in the office)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0816
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Management Accountant
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
The Assistant Management Accountant will provide support to the Financial Management team and wider Finance team, working closely with the Head of reporting, Associate Finance Business Partners and Senior Finance Business Partners across a range of Service Lines.
You will need to respond effectively to finance issues, resolving complex financial queries and providing complex advice and guidance within the assigned portfolio. This will include liaising with internal staff at all levels of seniority (including staff with non-finance backgrounds) and external colleagues for example from other NHS organisations, Local Authorities and non-NHS service providers.
Main duties of the job
- Provide central management accounts support to the Finance Business Partners and Associate Finance Business Partners on the production of month end reports, establishment updates and report distribution.
- Support the management accounting finance team to ensure the portfolio of tasks/projects are planned, managed, and delivered effectively.
- Create and input standard monthly journals relating to accruals, prepayments, maintenance contracts and income.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ensure robust financial management systems are in place to enable financial variances and trends to be monitored.
- Responsible for the collection, processing and output of inter-service recharges. Ensure all data required is received in accordance with the monthly timetable, is accurate, and is manipulated into a suitable format prior to data entry onto the finance system.
- Maintain underlying records in accordance with departmental and Trust policies to ensure that high quality information is produced to agreed timescales. This will include expenditure schedules; budget holder lists and staff lists.
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial records through the investigation of coding errors, working independently and in conjunction with other departments. Take corrective action and ensure systems are appropriately updated
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Further Duties:
- Develop and maintain a full understanding of the finance system and its applications, working with other key staff both within Financial Management and Financial Accounting to improve and automate processes where possible
- Investigate and interpret a range of financial enquiries, providing feedback through explanation and advice to budget managers within specific Service Lines. Ensure clear communication in order that finance terminology is understood by non-finance staff.
- Contribute to the budget setting process for specific Service Lines through maintenance of detailed supporting spreadsheets.
- Assist with project work and other ad-hoc duties to ensure that all the routine work of the department is covered.
- Act at all times as a representative for the Finance Department ensuring that the professional reputation of the Department is upheld.
- No direct line management.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound, demonstrable knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
- Sound numeracy and analytical skills.
- Sound oral, written and verbal communication skills.
- Computer literate with high-level spreadsheet skills
- Able to calculate, manipulate and interpret high volumes of data and present in an intelligent manner
- Good organisational skills and the ability to plan, prioritise and manage own workload
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the organisation’s objectives and activities
- • Understanding of the NHS agenda and knowledge of NHS financial framework
Training, qualification and registration
Essential criteria
- AAT Qualified
Desirable criteria
- Studying for CCAB accountancy qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous management accounting experience within the NHS.
- Previous experience of monitoring budgets and variance analysis
- Previous experience of data manipulation (with large data sets)
- Significant working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel to produce spreadsheets etc.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using SBS General Ledger
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sabina Rainczuk
- Job title
- Head of Reporting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622237262
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