Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: will also consider secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NCL-7808592-MU
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jeanette Wallace House
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
R&D Management Accountant
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
To provide timely and accurate management information to the Trust’s budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.
To participate in the production of the costing and pricing process.
To work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
- Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements.
- Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial positionInvestigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
- Reviewing financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
- Produce accurate year end forecasts.
- Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
- To ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC)
- Work through complex financial and non-financial workloads with minimal supervision or support
- To manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS FT are part of the South East London Finance Academy.
The South East London Finance Academy is committed to fostering professional development and career growth for all with a particular aim of enhancing opportunities for under-represented groups and improving the diversity of our finance community.
This means, that as part of our Secondment Pledge, this permanent role is advertised with the flexibility of a potential secondment opportunity for
the successful candidate. If you would like to explore this flexibility, please discuss with your current line manager and raise for discussion with the
recruiting manager, this will not adversely affect your application in any way. Whilst all secondments will require agreement from both the host and receiving organisations, all organisations within SEL are committed to approaching this conversation positively.
If successful, and you would like to take up the secondment opportunity, you will need to complete the Secondment Request Form found here to
aid discussion with your host and receiving organisations. On successful completion of the secondment, and in collaboration with your receiving
organisation, you will have the opportunity to convert the secondment to a substantive appointment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose:
To provide timely and accurate management information to the Trust’s budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets.
To work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders and colleagues around the Finance department.
The post holder will either be AAT qualified or actively pursuing a recognised accounting qualification. The post holder should be self-motivated with good communication and spreadsheet skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
- Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
- Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and to produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
- Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
- Investigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
- Participation in the costing and pricing of the Trust’s activity.
- Reviewing financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
- Produce accurate year end forecasts.
- Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
- Assisting managers in developing business plans for their areas of responsibility.
- To liaise with internal departments and external agencies to obtain relevant information in a timely manner.
- Support Finance Business Partner in implementing Service Line Reporting.
- Maintain adequate records for audit purposes.
- To ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC)
- Ensure the budget is kept updated for alterations throughout the year in line with budget rules and Standing Financial Instructions.
- Work through complex financial and non-financial workloads with minimal supervision or support
- To manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives
- Assisting in other ad-hoc financial exercises as required.
- Undertake any other duties applicable to the grade/post as required.
- This post involves the use of display screen equipment as a significant part of normal works and the job holder will be a user as defined in the Health & Safety Policy on work with DSE.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB part qualified
Experience
Essential criteria
- minimum 2 years experience in management accounting
Desirable criteria
- management accounting experience within an NHS organisation
Experience
Essential criteria
- detailed understanding of finance and accounting procedures with some understanding of their application within an NHS organisation
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good working knowledge and experience of systems, excel, budgeting systems, financial ledger systems and reporting software
Experience
Essential criteria
- experience of working to tight deadlines with the ability to prioritise own workload
Skills
Essential criteria
- good communication skills both written and verbal
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Heron
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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