Finance Manager - Capital and Fixed Assets

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With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT), one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK, is seeking a dynamic and experienced Capital Finance Manager. With a turnover of £1.5bn, ICHT provides specialist and acute care to over a million patients annually in North West London and beyond. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Finance Directorate and play a pivotal role in managing the Trust's capital financial operations.

As the Finance Manager for Capital and Fixed Assets, you will be responsible for overseeing the fixed asset register, ensuring accurate recording and classification of all assets, including depreciation, asset disposal, and lease management. You will be required to have hands-on experience with fixed asset accounting software.

A key part of your role will be ensuring robust general ledger management and providing technical expertise on asset management, including advising on capitalisation practices and what costs can be capitalised in line with financial standards. You will take ownership of capital month-end reporting, providing timely and accurate reports, and lead on the internal and external reporting of capital financials. Your analytical acumen will allow you to scrutinise financial data, identify trends, and make informed decisions to optimise capital investment for the Trust.

You will lead the capital finance reporting team, consisting of three members, and will be responsible for ensuring that the team meets its reporting deadlines. Additionally, you will manage interim and year-end audits for capital and ensure compliance with all statutory and regulatory financial reporting standards, such as IFRS, and the Department of Health and Social Care Group Accounting Manual particularly relating to capital assets, intangible assets, SaaS, and asset disposals. This role will also require you to lead teach-ins and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for key technical areas related to capital finance.

The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with strong knowledge of IFRS, VAT compliance, and capital finance principles. You will be adept at managing multiple deadlines, leading teams, and improving financial systems and processes in large, complex organisations. Advanced Excel skills, particularly in data modelling and summarising information, are essential. Experience in the NHS or a similar large-scale organisation will be highly beneficial.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious, self-motivated individual with strong commercial awareness and leadership skills. The role offers scope for career progression within one of the UK's leading NHS Trusts, with the potential to make a significant impact on the financial operations that support patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain the integrity of the capital financial systems within the Trust, to develop financial policies and practices as required, and liaise with external and internal audit and counter-fraud.
• Lead the month end process for financial accounts and reporting to external agencies, and to assist in the production of the Trust Annual Accounts and the external audit process (including leading and managing the audit process for the capital team)
• To manage the capital accounting of the Trust and advise on all aspects of capital. Maintain an accurate and up to date asset register, monitor expenditure on all capital schemes, manage depreciation journals and reconcile the asset register on a regular basis.
• To be the VAT expert for the Trust's capital projects and ensure the Trust complies with current VAT and HMRC requirements.
• To support the Head of Capital Finance to ensure that the financial and other systems of the Trust meet all statutory requirements, through the development and implementation of appropriate policies and procedures (including Standing Financial Instructions) and through appropriate audit and control.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified Accountant (CCAB or Equivalent)
• Knowledge of Capital accounting
• Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial reporting standards, and financial & other aspects of relevant legislation, gained through Professional Accountancy Qualifications (CCAB or equivalent) and have great demonstratable financial accounting experience.

Desirable criteria

• Further relevant specialist training in technical skills and NHS financial management

Experience

Essential criteria

• Providing quality accounting services and financial advice to senior financial staff
• Experience of working on capital projects
• Managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholder relationships, including negotiating outcomes to problems
• Advises and persuades senior budget holders on financial issues.

Desirable criteria

• Significant experience of working within the NHS
• Capital Aset Register System (CARS) experience.
• Co-ordinating annual asset valuation exercise.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Technically competent with good accounting and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of current accounting issues and a detailed understanding of the regulatory framework
• Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional issues, requiring concentration for long periods of time and analysis of complex data
• Evidence of planning and delivering deadlines and service on time for self and teams.

Desirable criteria

• Specific experience of using eFinancials, Business Objects, Qlikview and other specific ICHT financial systems

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 720.1KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)