Senior Reporting Accountant

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview
• Being proactive in developing the Trusts finance/activity modelling and reporting both internal and for external use.
• To aide in the development of the Trust long term financial strategy and analysis the effects of risks and decision on the trust financial position.
• The post holder will support on the development of an automated model for reporting and benchmarking and to help implement a calibrate planning tool.
• The post holder will be a member of a small team and will be required to work closely with finance, Performance and operational colleagues, project groups and other partner organisation, including other NHS organisations to ensure the provision of efficient and effective financial/Activity information.
• Ensuring post holder is compliant with the Trusts mandatory training requirements as necessary.

Main duties of the job
• To Lead in the development of the Trust financial reporting both for internal and external partners include Trust Board, Leadership teams and NHS England.
• Co-ordinate the completion of the Finance report which goes to the Trust Board with the assistance of the Financial Accountant, ensuring the timetable is met. This includes directing and liaising with staff outside of the direct control.
• To lead on the main sources of income into the trust ensuring that income is transacted appropriately each month with a clear audit trail to income schedules and contracts. All accounts to be fully reconciled and aligned to contract schedules on a monthly basis.
• To be the lead in the AOB (Agreement of Balances) for income & receivables for the Trust. To have a clear understanding of the process and be knowledgeable on the guidance published by the NHSE.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Being proactive in developing the Trusts finance/activity modelling and reporting both internal and for external use.
• To aide in the development of the Trust long term financial strategy and analysis the effects of risks and decision on the trust financial position.
• The post holder will support on the development of an automated model for reporting and benchmarking and to help implement a calibrate planning tool.
• The post holder will be a member of a small team and will be required to work closely with finance, Performance and operational colleagues, project groups and other partner organisation, including other NHS organisations to ensure the provision of efficient and effective financial/Activity information.
• Ensuring post holder is compliant with the Trusts mandatory training requirements as necessary.
• In conjunction with other sections within the Finance, performance and business directorate, Executive Directors' and budget holders, continually review current practices, procedures and systems to ensure that the most optimum use of resources is achieved in order to meet current and future requirements:
• To promote an appropriate culture within the Trust, promoting awareness and benefits of relevant financial procedures and constraints. Build effective relationships with service users.
• Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
• The post holder will be required to understand highly complex financial information and translate this to non-financial people and external organisations. This will include the presentation of table of costs material to a range of non-financial budgets holders and external partners in formats that are useful and understandable to them.
• The post holder will be responsible for preparing and presenting financial reports to Service Management Teams, external and internal groups, facilitation and persuasion skills to gain their agreement.
• Assist in the maintenance of an appropriate finance culture within the Trust, promoting awareness of relevant financial procedures and constraints Build effective relationships with service users.
• Ensure that own knowledge and skills are constantly updated, including mandatory training.
• Actively provide and receive management supervision and appraisals.
• Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within the agreed time scale.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in Staff Management
• Experience managing a large workload

Desirable criteria

• 1 Year Experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• CCAB Part qualified or fully qualified Accounting Technician with extensive post qualifying experience

Desirable criteria

• Qualified

test

Essential criteria

• ttest

Desirable criteria

• test

other skills

Essential criteria

• Management skills
• Reporting Experience

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work odd extended hrs

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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Documents to download

• Senior Reporting Accountant (PDF, 561.0KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)