Head of Financial Accounts - Sleaford, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Sleaford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking to recruit a Head of Financial Accounts for a fixed term period to join our Finance Department.

Experience of effective staff management and a detailed understanding of the NHS financial regime are also essential attributes required for this post.

This post is a key role within the finance department.

As a financial accountant and technical specialist it supports the management of the Treasury and Capital accounting function within the Trust.

It is responsible for the financial reporting of the Trust's annual capital programme and the accounting treatment of the Trust's fixed asset base.

This includes being the lead specialist for interpreting complex accounting rules and regulations and overseeing practice implementation
- such as IFRS 16, Leases.

Responsibility for the financial assessment of large capital business case developments and providing financial and business planning advice to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and business focus of data and compliance with Trust regulator guidelines is also a crucial element of this role.

This post is also responsible for the planning, production and completion of the Trust Annual Accounts and management of the year end account process within tight national deadlines and the subsequent liaison with External Auditors.

This post must be able to work as a senior member within Trust multi disciplinary project teams to provide professional financial advice to Directors and senior managers.

Provision of analysis and significant input into the completion of monthly financial internal and external reports and the yearly planning return is a key post requirement.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications-Essential

CAB (or equivalent) qualified with relevant post qualification experience

Evidence of CPD

Experience-Essential

Experience of effective staff management

Detailed understanding of the NHS financial regime and ability to ensure the Trust adheres to it

Experience of advising managers on complex financial issues in a clear and effective manner

Experience of developing and using IT solutions including advanced spreadsheets, financial ledgers

Skills-Essential

Ability to work innovatively in isolation or as a team, taking the lead as required

Ability to plan own workload and influence that delivered by other staff

Ability to manage and prioritise competing objectives.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include: