Senior Financial Accountant

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• AAT Qualified or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• CCAB Qualified (or equivalent combination of CCAB part qualified and experience)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Production of Statutory Final Accounts or extensive involvement in the process
• Utilising financial ledger systems to undertake sales ledger, purchase ledger, and general ledger procedures.
• Balance sheet reconciliation
• Prepare charitable fund accounts in accordance with necessary statutory guidance
• Cash flow management
• VAT accounting and preparation of returns to HMRC
• Payroll processing and third party payments
• Streamlining processes and procedures to improve efficiency
• Working with internal and external auditors
• Working with non-financial managers on finance and technical matters
• Using Systems
• Advanced Excel skills

Desirable criteria

• Financial modelling skills
• Financial systems management
• Project management and implementation of new financial systems or system upgrades

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to deal with people at all levels both within and outside of the organisation.
• Good strategic awareness and able to initiate change.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Up to date knowledge of accounting developments in legislation
• Working capital management

Desirable criteria

• Capital accounting in the NHS
• Policy development and implementation

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 824.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)