Band 7 Senior Management Accountant - Bath

You will work closely with senior managers and directors within the corporate directorates, providing financial analysis, support, and advice and challenge to help them deliver a financially sustainable service.
You will also ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts and forecasts for the corporate directorates within the Trust., This role will help budget holders to deliver a financially sustainable service, by providing financial analysis, support, advice and challenge as necessary.
The role will ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts and forecasts for the corporate directorates within the Trust.
The role includes the management of other staff within the Finance department.
The role will also ensure budget holders are trained to understand their financial position and support the budget holders with strategic financial queries.
This role will support the Deputy Director of Finance and Head of Financial Management & Costing by providing relevant analysis of data to support contract negotiations and other work.
This role fits within a busy finance department and will include other Trust wide and ad hoc tasks appropriate to the grade.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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